CLASSIFICATION: 30/71.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 1.
SPACEFLIGHT HOURS: 15 days 17 hours 30 min. 28 sec.
WORLD RECORD: a crew member of the ever first manned flight performed by the Defence Ministry (Soyuz-14, Salyut-3 orbital station, 1974).
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: July 22, 1930, Klin district, Moscow region, RSFSR (Russia).
NATIONALITY: Russian.
EDUCATION:
July 1959 – finished secondary school No. 4, Klin;
1950 – graduated from the Serpukhov air technicians college, major-aircraft electrical equipment;
1958 – graduated from the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy, specialization-Air Force electrical equipment engineer;
1980 – awarded a degree of technical science candidate.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
1942 – worked at the collective farm;
from February 19, 1951 – a technician of special service air squadron of attack plane regiment 231 of the Zabaykalsky Military Command;
from March 17, 1958 – a senior engineer for air jets automation;
from January 24, 1959 – a senior engineer for electrical and gauge equipment of aircraft;
from February 25, 1961 – a senior engineer.
DATE OF JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS (GROUP NUMBER, DATE):
January 10, 1963 – was enrolled as a student-cosmonaut (group 2) in the cosmonaut corps of the Air Force Cosmonaut Training Center by the Air Force Commander-in-Chief order;
from January 23, 1961 – a cosmonaut of the cosmonaut corps.
RATING:
December 31, 1965 – an instructor for the Air Force airborne regiment (more than 100 parachute jumps);
July 25, 1974 – a third-class cosmonaut.
BACK-UP ACTIVITY:
May 1965 to January 1966 – a crew member of the Voshod-3 third crew along with V. Shatalov;
September 1966 to January 1967 – training on the Zvezda program;
January 18, 1967 to January 1970 – group training on the Moon flight program using L-1 space vehicle.
SPACE FLIGHTS PERFORMED:
July 3 to July 19, 1974 – a flight-engineer of Soyuz-14 and Salyut-3 Basic Expedition together with P. Popovich on the program of the first expedition. Flight duration: 15 days 17 hours 30 min. 28 sec. Call sign: "Bercut-2".
DISCHARGE FROM COSMONAUT CORPS:
1982 – was discharged from the cosmonaut corps due to new appointment.
OCCUPATION AT THE GCTC:
January 26, 1982 to December 24 1987 – deputy head of division 1 on scientific research and test activity;
1988 – discharged from the Soviet Military service due to age limit (colonel in the reserve).
AWARDS:
Medal "Gold Star" of Hero of the Soviet Union (July 20, 1974),
Order of Lenin (July 20, 1974),
Order of Red Star (1980),
12 commemorative medals,
Medal "Frontier Guard" (1977),
Jan Krasovsky Cross (PPR, 1975),
Honor Golden Sign of Soviet-Poland friendship society (1975).
DATE AND CAUSE OF DEATH: 4 August 1998-cancer ailment. Buried at the Leonicha cemetery, nearby Star city.

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