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| | AP Worldstream: Soviet Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev dies@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, whose 1962 flight into space set an endurance record at the time, has died, Russian media reported Sunday. |
 | | Nikolayev died Saturday in Cheboksary, the capital of his native Chuvash Autonomous Republic, where he was judging the All-Russian rural sport games, the Interfax news agency reported, citing Alexander Kurashov, a member of the games organizing committee. |
 | | Kurashov said that Nikolayev suffered a heart attack and was taken to the hospital, where he died. |
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