Valeri Polyakov

Soviet and russian cosmonaut.

Born April 27th, 1942 in Tula.

Died September 7th, 2022 at 80 years old in Moscow. [ref]

Occupations
astronaut, physician
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel