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Anatoliy Chizhov
Russian engineer and politician (1934–2021)
Anatoliy Alekseyevich Chizhov (Russian: Анатолий Алексеевич Чижов; 15 June 1934 – 24 August 2021) was a Soviet and Russian engineer and politician.[1] He was Director of the Progress Rocket Space Centre from 1980 to 1996 and served in the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991. He was a recipient of the USSR State Prize in 1981 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1988.