Yury Usachov is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Yury Usachov as Russian cosmonaut.
Yury Usachov was born at Donetsk in 1957. His recorded nationality is Russia. He was educated at Moscow Aviation Institute.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Yury Usachov is described as engineer, astronaut and aircraft pilot.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Working from Russia shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Yury Usachov is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Educated at Moscow Aviation Institute
- Worked as engineer, astronaut and aircraft pilot
