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{{Infobox military person
| name = Yuri Garrievich Abramovich
| native_name = Юрий Гарриевич Абрамович
| image = 
| birth_date = 5 September 1935
| birth_place = [[Kharkiv]], [[Ukrainian SSR]], USSR
| death_date = 28 February 2017 (aged 81)
| death_place = [[Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast]], [[Russia]]
| allegiance = {{USSR|Soviet Union}}
| branch = {{flagicon image|Flag of the Soviet Air Force.svg}} [[Soviet Air Forces|Soviet Air Force]]
| unit = 
| serviceyears = 
| rank = Senior lieutenant
| awards = [[Hero of the Russian Federation]]
}} 
'''Yuri Garrievich Abramovich''' ({{langx|ru|Юрий Гарриевич Абрамович}}; 5 September 1935 in [[Kharkiv]], [[Ukrainian SSR]] – 28 February 2017 in [[Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast]], [[Russia]]) was a [[test pilot]] of the [[Moscow Aviation Industrial Association]] (MAIA).

Abramovich graduated from [[Moscow Aviation Institute]] in 1959. From 1965 to 1995 Abramovich worked as a test pilot at aviation enterprise "Znamya Truda" (now named MAIA) in [[Lukhovitsy]] town in [[Moscow Oblast]]. He tested several supersonic fighter aircraft [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21]], [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23]], [[Mikoyan MiG-29]] and their modifications, and participated in testing the [[Ilyushin Il-103]] light multipurpose aircraft.

On 1 March 1996 Abramovich was awarded the title [[Hero of the Russian Federation]] "for courage and heroism shown during the testing of new aviation technology".<ref name="01march1996">{{Cite Russian law
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|ru_number=314
|ru_date=01.03.1996
|ru_title=О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации работников предприятий, учреждений и организаций оборонных отраслей промышленности
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 |title=Archived copy 
 |access-date=September 2, 2009 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604012634/http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=075341 
 |archive-date=June 4, 2011 
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|en_entity=[[President of Russia]]
|en_type=[[Ukaz]]
|en_number=314
|en_date=1 March 1996
|en_title=On the conferring of state awards of the Russian Federation to employees of enterprises, agencies and defence industry organisations
|en_url={{cite web
 |url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID%3D075341 
 |title=Archived copy 
 |access-date=September 2, 2009 
 |url-status=dead 
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 |archive-date=June 4, 2011 
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}}</ref>

He lived in the city of [[Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast]], and works as deputy head of the aviation testing complex of MAIA for flight work. He was an ethnic [[Jews|Jew]].

==Awards==
* [[Hero of the Russian Federation]] (1 March 1996)
* [[Order of the Red Banner of Labour]], twice (26 April 1971, 11 October 1974)
* [[Order of the Badge of Honour]] (31 July 1961)
* [[Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"]]
* [[Medal "Veteran of Labour"]]
* [[Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR]]

==See also==
*[[List of Heroes of the Russian Federation]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=1319 biography on the site "warheroes.ru" (in Russian)]
*[http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/mikoyan/isp/abramovich.htm biography on the site "testpilot.ru" (in Russian)]

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[[Category:1935 births]]
[[Category:2017 deaths]]
[[Category:Military personnel from Kharkiv]]
[[Category:Moscow Aviation Institute alumni]]
[[Category:Heroes of the Russian Federation]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour]]
[[Category:Soviet test pilots]]
[[Category:Russian people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent]]

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