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Aug 31, 2023 · Professor Vitaly Melnikov, a leading Russian space scientist, has died after allegedly being poisoning by 'inedible mushrooms' that left him fighting for his life for two weeks
Vitaly Vyacheslavovich Melnikov (Russian: Виталий Вячеславович Мельников; 1 May 1928 – 21 March 2022) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. He was named People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1987 and awarded Order of Honour in 2002 and IV Class Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" in 2010.
Sep 1, 2023 · Professor Vitaly Melnikov was head of the department of rocket and space systems at RSC Energia, Moscow’s leading spacecraft manufacturer. The 77-year-old was battling illness caused by the...
Aug 31, 2023 · The death of Vitaly Melnikov, 77, came weeks after a Russian unmanned spacecraft crashed onto the surface of the moon, an embarrassing setback for a country that was the first to put a man in...
Aug 31, 2023 · Professor Vitaly Melnikov (pictured), 77, headed the Department of Rocket and Space Systems at RSC Energia, Moscow's leading spacecraft manufacturer. Russia has...
Aug 31, 2023 · Professor Vitaly Melnikov, 77, had headed the Department of Rocket and Space Systems at RSC Energia before becoming suddenly seriously ill days before he died. A Moscow newspaper claimed that inedible mushrooms were the reason for his sudden downturn in health.
Vitaly Melnikov, 77, worked at RSC Energia, the rocket company that built the Luna-25 craft, which crashed on its ill-fated Moon mission on August 19, according to Moskovsky Komsomolets, a Moscow...
