“Today, October 29, 2019, after a long serious illness, a prominent scientist died ... the organizer of space technology work, a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences ... Nikolay Apollonovich Anfimov,” the obituary posted on the Roskosmos website says.
The management and staff of the state corporation expressed deep condolences to the relatives and friends of Anfimov.
On October 11, at the age of 85, the cosmonaut Alexei Leonov died.