COSMONAUT KILLED?
Reference In Soviet Paper (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) VANCOUVER, January 9. At least one and possibly two Russian cosmonauts have been killed in qpece flights, according to the Canadian Press.
The agency said yesterday that the deaths were reported in the December 31 issue of the Soviet Govern-
ment newspaper "Izvestia," received in Vancouver yesterday. A Russian-speaking correspondent of the "Vancouver Sun," Arthur Karday, spotted the reference, which was in a long article about the twin flights last August of Lieutenant-Colonel Pavel Popovich and Major Andrian Nikolayev. In the body of the article, these paragraphs appeared, “One of the truly magnificent and awe-inspiring monuments to human spirit is the self-sacrifice of two other heavenly heroes—Andreev and Dolgov. “One of them, Dolgov, was destined not- to return from the stratosphere. “He, like the Gorkian eagle, sacrificed his life in order to save hundreds and perhaps thousands of other spacemen through his heroism.** No hint of the circumstances was given in the “Izvestia” arttale.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30027, 11 January 1963, Page 11
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