Dmitri Zaikin
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Dmitri Alekseyevich Zaikin (born in Yekaterinovka, Rostov Oblast, Russia on April 29, 1932) was a trainer of cosmonauts.
He graduated from Military Fighter Pilot School, Armavir and Frunse (now Bishkek), in 1955, and was selected for the cosmonaut training in 1960, as one of a group of the twenty Air Force pilots who would train as the first cosmonauts.
Zaikin was assigned as backup commanader for Voskhod 2. He then went on to graduate from the Zhukovsky Military Engineering Academy, Monino, in 1968. He left the space service on medical grounds (stomach ulcer) while training for Soyuz missions on October 25, 1969. He then became an instructor and lead engineer at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center.
He left the space programme in 1982, and retired from active military duty in 1987.
He is married with two children.
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