Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich () (March 4, 1937 in Choibalsan,

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, voyager, scientist, and Candidate of Sciences (PhD equivalent degree). Senkevich became famous in the USSR and worldwide for sailing with Thor Heyerdahl on the Ra Expedition. Senkevich was born to Russian parents in Mongolia. In 1960, he graduated from the Military Medical Academy in

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. After his graduation, he received an assignment as a military doctor. In 1962, Senkevich started at the Ministry of Defence's Moscow Institute of Aviation and Cosmic Medicine. On June 1, 1965, he was selected into Medical Group 2 (along with Yevgeni Illyin, Aleksandr Kiselyov) for the long-duration Voskhod flights in space, all of which were subsequently canceled to make way for the Soviet Moon program. All three were dismissed at the beginning of the following year. He continued his career in that field at the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Ministry of Public Health. From 1966 to 1967, he participated in the twelfth Soviet Antarctic expedition at Vostok station. In 1969, Thor Heyerdahl invited Senkevich to sail on the ''Ra'' papyrus boat, and later on ''Ra II'' in 1970. Yuri Senkevich also sailed on the ''

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. In 1973, Senkevich began his career as a host of the " Travelers' Club" (Клуб путешественников), a show on Soviet Central Television. Over the following 30 years, he visited more than 200 countries as a journalist. For his lifetime contribution to television, he was awarded the " TEFI" prizeby the Russian Academy of Television in 1997. Yuri Senkevich is in the ''

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'' as "the world's longest serving TV anchorman". He had a son, Nikolay Senkevich, who later became head of NTV. Senkevich died of

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The species Spinturnix senkevitchi is named in honor of Dr. Yuri A. Senkevitch (described by Maria Orlova and Nikolay Anisimov, leg. V.S. Lebedev)

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* ttp://www.astronaut.ru/as_rusia/imbp/text/senkevitch.htm?reload_coolmenus Astronaut.ru — Юрий Александрович Сенкевич
Maria V. Orlova and Nikolay V. Anisimov. Three new species of bat-parasitic gamasid mites of the genera Spinturnix, Macronyssus and Steatonyssus (Acari: Mesostigmata: Spinturnicidae, Macronyssidae) from Siberia and Mongolia, with keys to species of Russia and adjacent countries. Persian J. Acarol., 2023, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 211–239.
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