Yuri Garrievich Abramovich | |
Native Name: | Юрий Гарриевич Абрамович |
Birth Date: | 5 September 1935 |
Birth Place: | Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
Death Date: | 28 February 2017 (aged 81) |
Death Place: | Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast, Russia |
Branch: | Soviet Air Force |
Rank: | Senior lieutenant |
Awards: | Hero of the Russian Federation |
Yuri Garrievich Abramovich (Russian: Юрий Гарриевич Абрамович; 5 September 1935 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR – 28 February 2017 in Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast, Russia) was a test pilot of the Moscow Aviation Industrial Association (MAIA).
Abramovich graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute in 1959. From 1965 to 1995 Abramovich worked as a test pilot at aviation enterprise "Znamya Truda" (now named MAIA) in Lukhovitsy town in Moscow Oblast. He tested several supersonic fighter aircraft Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, Mikoyan MiG-29 and their modifications, and participated in testing the Ilyushin Il-103 light multipurpose aircraft.
On 1 March 1996 Abramovich was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation "for courage and heroism shown during the testing of new aviation technology".[1]
He lived in the city of Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast, and works as deputy head of the aviation testing complex of MAIA for flight work. He was an ethnic Jew.