CLASSIFICATION: 32/73.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 1.
SPACE FLIGHT HOURS: 2 days 00 hours 12 min. 11 sec.
PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: January 11, 1926, Moscow, RSFSR (Russia).
NATIONALITY: Russian.
EDUCATION:
July 1941 – finished seven years of secondary school No.354, Moscow;
August 1945 – finished the second year of the Moscow Air Force school;
July 1947 – finished two courses of the Vasilyevsk air technicians college, Kiev region;
1949 – graduated with honors from the first Moscow Red Banner holding Air Force school for the radio communication;
1950 – finished the access course of the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy;
1956 – finished the radio technical department of the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy and received a diploma of Air Force radio communication engineer;
1961 – graduated from the post-graduate study of the jet-propelled commanded weapon systems department of the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy;
1963 – awarded a degree of technical science candidate.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
From January 1942 - worked as a turner at the Moscow drilling machines plant of the Oil Industry Ministry;
From July 15, 1947 to January 30, 1948 – served as air technician at the Pilot tactical officer courses;
From May 12, 1949 – at the command of the Moscow Military Command Air Force Commander-in-chief;
From June 30, 1949 to January 24, 1950 – a duty officer for radio communication, from July 20, 1949 – a radar set platoon commander of detached radio signal regiment 131of the Moscow Military Command Air Force;
From April 2, 1956 – served as a radio engineer of the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy;
From June 24, 1958 – a candidate of the jet-propelled commanded weapon systems department, since 6 February 1959 – a candidate of the air weapon systems operation department of the same academy;
From September14, 1961 – a senior research assistant of laboratory 54 of department 24 for the fourth division of the Central Air Force Scientific Research Institute.
DATE OF JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS (GROUP NUMBER, DATE):
January 10, 1963 – by the Air Force commander-in-chief order appointed to the cosmonaut student position of the cosmonaut corps of the GCTC (the second group);
From January 23, 1965 – a second group cosmonaut and cosmonaut-engineers chief.
RATING:
September 3, 1974 - a third class cosmonaut;
A instructor for the Air Force airborne regiment (more than 100 parachute jumps);
Total flight hours: more than 630 hours with an instructor on various types of aircraft.
BACK-UP ACTIVITY:
May 3, 1965 to January 1966 – a back up crewmember for the Voshod-3 space mission together with G. Beregovoy.
SPACE FLIGHTS PERFORMED:
August 26 to August 28, 1974 – aflight engineer of the Soyuz-15 along with G. Sarafanov. Since the control system of the approach correction jet failed the docking and Salyut-3 space flight were not successful (instead of retrograde burn the acceleration one was fired). For the first time of all they landed at night. Flight duration: 2 days 00 hours 12 min. 11 sec. Call sign:Dunay-2.
AWARDS:
Medal "Gold Star" of Hero of the Soviet Union (September 19, 1974),
Order of Lenin (September 2, 1974),
Order of Labour Red Banner (July 13, 1984),
Medal Combat Merit (February 12, 1957),
Medal Virgin Lands Developing (April 29, 1974),
11 commemorative medals,
Order of Hungarian Peoples Republic Red Banner,
Medal 1300 anniversary to Bulgaria (November 14, 1983).
DATE AND CAUSE OF DEATH: December 18, 1998 – cancer ailment.
Buried at the Leonicha village cemetery , nearby Star city.

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