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One of fathers of Soviet cosmonautics Boris Chertok dead

"The last of the Mohicans" in the Russian cosmonautics, who was one of the first to make an endeavor to conquer space, passed away barely 2.5 months before his hundredth birthday

MOSCOW, December 14 (Itar-Tass) — Boris Chertok - a fellow supporter of the founder of cosmonautics Sergei Korolyov, passed away in Moscow on Wednesday, the press service of Energy Rocket Space Corporation told Itar-Tass.

"The last of the Mohicans" in the Russian cosmonautics, who was one of the first to make an endeavor to conquer space, passed away barely 2.5 months before his hundredth birthday.