Boris Morukov
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Russian cosmonaut and physician (1950–2015)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1950-10-01 ) October 1, 1950, Moscow , Soviet Russia , USSR
- Died
- 1 January 2015 (2015-01-01) (aged 64)
- Occupations
- Physician , cosmonaut
- Time in space
- 11d 19h 12m
- Missions
- STS-106
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Boris
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- astronaut
- Educated at
- Russian National Research Medical University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Image
- Boris Vladimirovich Morukov.jpg
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- Commons category
- Boris Morukov
- date of birth
- 1950-10-01
- P450
- STS-106
- date of death
- 2015-01-01
- time in space
- 16992
- place of burial
- Khovanskoye Cemetery
- cause of death
- disease
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
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Boris Vladimirovich Morukov (Russian: Бори́с Влади́мирович Моруков; 1 October 1950 – 1 January 2015) was a Russian physician at the State Research Center RF-Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP). He trained with the Russian Federal Space Agency as a research-cosmonaut and flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-106 as a mission specialist
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