Gennadi Sarafanov is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Gennadi Sarafanov as Soviet cosmonaut (1942–2005).
Gennadi Sarafanov was born at Sinenkie in 1942. His recorded nationality is the Soviet Union. He was educated at Balashov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots and Gagarin Air Force Academy.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as aircraft pilot and astronaut.
Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
His work was formally recognised with the Order of Lenin, Hero of the Soviet Union and Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR".
Working from the Soviet Union shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Gennadi Sarafanov died in 2005, aged 63. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Educated at Balashov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots and Gagarin Air Force Academy
- Worked as aircraft pilot and astronaut
