Yury Nikolayevich Glazkov (Russian: Ю́рий Никола́евич Глазко́в; 2 October 1939 – 9 December 2008)[1][2] was a Soviet Air Force officer and a cosmonaut.

Born in Moscow, in the USSR, Glazkov graduated from Kharkov Military Engineering High School in 1962, receiving the candidate of technical sciences degree.

He served as a flight engineer in the Soviet Air Force before being selected as a cosmonaut on 23 October 1965.

[2] He was awarded a doctorate in technical sciences in 1974, and in 1989 he became the first Deputy Chief of Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, a position from which he retired in May 2000.

One of which, "Чёрное безмолвие" (The Black Silence) was illustrated by fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov.