Pyotr Klimuk, Belarusian general, pilot, and astronaut

Pyotr Klimuk

Soviet cosmonaut (born 1942)

Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk is a former Soviet cosmonaut and the first Belarusian to perform space travel. Klimuk made three flights into space. From 1991 to 2003, he headed the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.