Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko

This article is about the Soviet cosmonaut born in 1938. For the Russian cosmonaut born in 1964, see Oleg Kononenko.
In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Grigoriyevich and the family name is Kononenko.
Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko
Born(1938-08-16)16 August 1938
Samarskoye, Rostov Oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Died8 September 1980(1980-09-08) (aged 42)
South China Sea
OccupationPilot
Space career
Cosmonaut

Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko (16 August 1938 – 8 September 1980) was a member of Soviet cosmonaut group LII-1. He was born in the village of Samarskoye, in Rostov, Russia, then part of the Soviet Union. He graduated from Zhukovsky Air Force Institute in 1975. On 12 July 1977, he was selected for cosmonaut training as a pilot of the Buran space shuttle. He survived an aircraft ejection on the Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk on 27 December 1979. Kononenko was married three times and had four children. He was killed on 8 September 1980, in the crash of a Yakovlev Yak-38 VTOL fighter on takeoff from the Minsk in the South China Sea.

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