Yuri Baturin

Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Family name hatnoteTemplate:Infobox astronaut Yuri Mikhailovich Baturin (Template:Langx; born 12 June 1949, in Moscow), is a Russian cosmonaut and former politician.<ref name="spacefacts.de">Template:Cite web</ref> He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.<ref>Template:Cite act</ref>

Baturin graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1973, and is the former Assistant to the President on National Security and Secretaty of the Defense Council (1996-1998); he is also an author in constitutional law.<ref>Yury Baturin. Studies in Constitutional Law. Moscow: ILPP, 2008, 114 pp, with illustrations [Russian: Батурин Ю. Конституционные этюды. - М.: Институт права и публичной политики, 2008 – 114 с., 80 с. ил.</ref> Baturin was also a cosmonaut who flew on two missions.

His first spaceflight, sometimes called Mir EP-4,<ref name=EA-EP4>Template:Cite web</ref> was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TM-28 13 August 1998, and landed with Soyuz TM-27. He was a research cosmonaut for this mission, which lasted for 11 days 19 hours 39 minutes. His second spaceflight was ISS EP-1, which was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TM-32 on April 28, 2001, and landed with Soyuz TM-31. This mission was notable as carrying to first paying space tourist Dennis Tito. For this mission he was designated a Flight Engineer; the mission lasted for 7 days 22 hours and 4 minutes.<ref name="spacefacts.de"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

He married Svetlana Veniaminovna Polubinskaya; they had a daughter.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• List of Heroes of the Russian Federation