death_date death_place birth_place mission nationality article_title birth_date selection rank time name type occupation
14 june 2010 moscow , russia krasnyi now ukraine -rrb- lyman , donetsk oblast , soviet union -lrb- soyuz t-3 , soyuz t-10 , soyuz t-15 soviet leonid kizim
 5 august 1941 air force group 3 colonel general , soviet air force 374d 17h 56m leonid denisovich kizim cosmonaut pilot
leonid kizim

leonid denisovich kizim -lrb- Кизим Леонид Денисович -rrb- -lrb- august 5 , 1941 -- june 14 , 2010 -rrb- was a soviet cosmonaut .
kizim was born in krasnyi lyman , donetsk oblast , soviet union -lrb- now ukraine -rrb- .
he graduated from higher air force school in 1975 ; and served as a test pilot in the soviet air force .
he was selected as a cosmonaut on october 23 , 1965 .
kizim flew as commander on soyuz t-3 , soyuz t-10 and soyuz t-15 , and also served as backup commander for soyuz t-2 .
all together he spent 374 days 17 hours 56 minutes in space .
on soyuz t-15 , he was part of the only crew to visit two space stations on one spaceflight -lrb- mir and salyut 7 -rrb- .
he later served as deputy director satellite control-center of the russian ministry of defense ; after may 1995 he was director of the military engineering academy of aeronautics and astronautics in st. petersburg .
he retired on june 13 , 1987 , and died on june 14 , 2010 .
leonid kizim was married with two children .
he was awarded : twice hero of the soviet union -lrb- december 10 , 1980 and october 2 , 1984 -rrb- ; pilot-cosmonaut of the ussr order of honour order of friendship three orders of lenin medal `` for the development of virgin lands '' foreign awards : order of sukhbaatar -lrb- mongolia -rrb- ; medal `` 30 years of victory over japan 's militarists '' -lrb- mongolia -rrb- ; medal `` 60 years of the mongolian people 's revolution '' ; knight of the legion of honour -lrb- france -rrb- ; kirti chakra -lrb- india -rrb- ; order of merit -lrb- ukraine -rrb- .
