Nikolai Kamanin
Soviet aviator
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Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin was a Soviet Air Force general and a program manager in the Soviet space program. A career aviator, he awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1934 for the rescue of SS Chelyuskin crew from an improvised airfield... Wikipedia
Born: October 18, 1908, Melenki, Russia
Died: March 11, 1982 (age 73 years), Moscow, Russia
Children: Arkadiy Kamanin
Nationality: Russian and Soviet
Education: Voyenno-Vozdushnaya Inzhenernaya Akademiya Imeni Professora N.ye.zhukovskogo (1934–1938)