Cosmonaut George Grechko died

This was reported on the website of the journal "Cosmonautics News".

“On the night of April 8, at the 86th year of his life, the Cosmonaut of the USSR died, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, engineer and cosmonaut OKB-1-TsKBEM-NPO Energia Georgy Mikhailovich Grechko,” the report said.

The day before, the federal media reported that the astronaut was discharged from the 81st city clinical hospital in Moscow. Veresaeva, where he was hospitalized with suspicion of microinfart

George Grechko was born on May 25, 1931 in Leningrad. In 1975, he made his first flight on the Soyuz-17 spacecraft as a sorcerer. In total, Grechko has three flights and one exit to outer space.