Georgy Shonin

Georgy Stepanovich Shonin (Гео́ргій Степа́нович Шо́нін) (August 3, 1935 – April 7, 1997; born in Rovenky, Luhansk Oblast, (now Ukraine) but grew up in Balta of Ukrainian SSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut, who flew on the Soyuz 6 space mission.

Shonin was part of the original group of cosmonauts selected in 1960. He left the space programme in 1979 for medical reasons.

He later worked as the director of the 30th Central Scientific Research Institute, Ministry of Defence (Russia).

Shonin died of a heart attack in 1997.

He was awarded:
 * Hero of the Soviet Union
 * Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
 * Order of Lenin
 * Order of the October Revolution
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labour
 * Order of the Red Star
 * Ten commemorative medals
 * Medal "25 Years of People's Power" (Bulgaria)
 * Three medals from the Mongolian People's Republic
 * Five medals from the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic