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Grigory Nelyubov

Soviet cosmonaut

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Grigory Grigoryevich Nelyubov was one of the original 20 Soviet cosmonauts, who was dismissed from the Soviet space program in 1963 for drunk and disorderly conduct. His existence in the program was kept secret until the advent of Soviet glasnost in the late 1980s. He committed suicide on 18 February 1966.

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“Grigory Nelyubov” enters the record as soviet cosmonaut. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Grigory, Nelyubov and Soviet can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Grigory Nelyubov” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.