How to Pronounce Vladimir Ilyushin
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Mar 31, 1927 Moscow, Russia Died on 01 Mar 2010 (aged 82)
Soviet and Russian test pilot
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About Vladimir Ilyushin
- Major General Vladimir Sergeyevich Ilyushin (Russian: ???????? ?????´???? ???????; 31 March 1927 – 1 March 2010) was a Soviet general and test pilot, and the son of aerospace engineer Sergei Ilyushin.
- He spent most of his career as a test pilot for the Sukhoi OKB (rivalrous to Ilyushin OKB.) In 1961, Ilyushin was the subject of rumors that he, rather than Yuri Gagarin, was the first cosmonaut in space.
- According to those rumours, his mission ended badly, and the Soviet Union had covered it up.
- Ilyushin was also a rugby union administrator who was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame (then known as the IRB Hall of Fame) in 2013.
