Pavlov in 1987, and retired the following year with the rank of lieutenant-general in the medical services of the Soviet Air Force. A deputy of the USSR from 1989–1991, – was a member of the Committee on Science and Education of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and was a member of the Commission which investigated the 1989 April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi. Gazenko was an adviser to the Russian Academy of Sciences at the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation "Institute of Biomedical Problems." In 1998 Gazenko expressed regret for the manner of Laika's death: "Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it. We shouldn't have done it. We did not learn enough from the mission to justify the death of the dog." Until his death, he acted as an advisor to Anatoly Grigoriev, the current Director of the Institute. He had been appointed to the position of Academician in the Russian Academy of Science. Gazenko died on November 17, 2007; he is buried in the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow. Publications Books Animals in Space (1960) Life and Space (1961) Space Cardiology (1967) Mankind and Space (1987) Journals Problems of Space Biology (since 1963, more than 80 volumes) Space Biology and Medicine in 1969 ''Fundamentals of Space Biology and Medicine;; (in three volumes, 1975) Honors State Prize of the USSR (1978) Order of Lenin Gold Medal of Pavlov (1988) Order "For service to the Fatherland Order" IV Degree (1998) Demidov Prize (1998) References Notice of death at S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Obituary Notice of death at NASA Watch 1918 births 2007 deaths 20th-century Russian zoologists Russian physiologists Russian people of Ukrainian descent Demidov Prize laureates Soviet space program personnel Soviet Air Force generals Soviet lieutenant generals Soviet military personnel of World War II Soviet military personnel of the Korean War Soviet zoologists Soviet physiologists Soviet military doctors Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery