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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Yuri Gagarin, Toktar Aubakirov, Nikolai Kamanin, Lydia Litvyak, Yuri Malenchenko, Gennady Padalka, Yekaterina Budanova, Georgy Prokofiev, Nikolai Gastello, Valery Korzun, Vladimir Titov, Viktor Alksnis, Salizhan Sharipov, Vladimir Dezhurov, Marina Raskova, Alexander Rutskoy, Valentin Bondarenko, Endel Puusepp, Mikhail Devyatayev, Mariya Dolina, Valery Chkalov, Anton Nilson, Yakov Alksnis, Valentin Varlamov, Viktor Belenko, Sergey Gritsevets, Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev, John Gridunov, Semyon Trofimovich Bychkov, Yevgeniya Rudneva, Sergei Zalyotin, Anna Yegorova, Anatoly Solovyev, Yekaterina Zelenko, Georgy Baydukov, Yury Glazkov, Pyotr Klimuk, Grigori Nelyubov, Igor Volk, Anatoli Levchenko, Stepan Kretov, Alexander Zuyev, Mavriky Slepnyov, Lev Shestakov, Amet-khan Sultan, Marina Popovich, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladimir Sergeyevich Mikhaylov, Anatoly Artsebarsky, Polina Gelman, Rimantas Stankevi ius, Yuri Garnaev, Yury Vasilyevich Malyshev, Viktor Talalikhin, Rafael Ivanovich Kapreliants, Vasily Lazarev, Vladimir Seryogin, Anatoly Berezovoy, Gennadi Sarafanov, Gennadi Manakov, Alexander Fyodorovich Avdeyev, Irina Sebrova, Alexander Zelin, Yevgeny Pepelyaev, Vladimir Lyakhov, Dmitri Zayikin, Vyacheslav Zudov, Ivan Chisov, Mikhail Babushkin, Pyotr Dolgov, Mikhail Gromov, Vadim Petrovich Shchbakov, Vasily Osipov, Nurken Abdirov, Magomed Tolboyev, Yevgeniy Savitskiy, Pavel Golovin, Nikolai Melnik, Pavel Agafonov, Andrei Durnovtsev. Excerpt: Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin (Russian: ) (18 October 1908 - 11 March 1982) was a Soviet aviator, awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1934 for the rescue of SS Chelyuskin crew from an improvised airfield on the frozen surface of the Chukchi Sea near Kolyuchin Island. In World War II he successfully commanded air brigade, air division and an air corps, reaching the rank of Air...