CLASSIFICATION: 49/82.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 1.
SPACEFLIGHT HOURS: 17 days 17 hours 25 min. 58 sec.
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: October 2, 1939, the RSFSR (Russia), Moscow.
NATIONALITY: Russian.
EDUCATION:
1954 - completed the seven-year course of secondary school No.623, Moscow;
1954 - 1955 – student of the Moscow Artillery Preparation School 2. Due to the disbandment of the school he was transferred to the Stavropol Suvorov School;
August, 1955 – August, 1957 – student of the Stavropol Suvorov School;
1962– graduated from the Kharkov Higher Military Air Force Engineering School on the specialty of “Electro-automatic systems and instruments of rolling stock and stationary special equipment” and acquired the profession of “electrical engineer”;
1974 - was granted a degree of Candidate of Technology;
1991 - was granted a degree of Doctor of Technology.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
From July 3, 1962 – junior military representative at the plant №686;
From December 4, 1963 – officer of the 4^th division of the Strategic Purpose Missile Force 2^nd General Department.
DATE OF ENROLLMENT IN COSMONAUT CORPS (GROUP NUMBER, DATE):
October 28, 1965 - was enrolled as a student-cosmonaut in the cosmonaut corps 1^st department of the Air Force Cosmonaut Training Center by the Air Force commander-in-chief order (the third enrollment);
From December 30, 1967 - cosmonaut of the 2^nd corps.
RATING: an officer-diver ( 1967 ), Air Force parachute training instructor (1969), a third-class cosmonaut (1977).
BACK-UP ACTIVITY:
January, 1975 – June, 1976 – a flight engineer of the third crew on the program of the Almaz (“Salyut-5”) Expedition-1 together with V. Gorbatko.
July – October, 1976 – a flight engineer of the back-up crew for the flight to the Salyut-5 (“Almaz”) Orbital Manned Station-103on the program of Expedition-2 together with V. Gorbatko.
October 14, 1976 – back-up to the Soyuz-23 spacecraft flight engineer V. Rozhdestvensky.
SPACEFLIGHTS PERFORMED:
February 7-25, 1977, as a flight engineer of the Soyuz-24 spacecraft and the Salyut-5 (“Almaz” Orbital Manned Station-103) station together with V. Gorbatko. Flight duration: 17 days 17 hours 25 minutes 58 seconds. Call sign: “Terek-2”.
DISCHARGE FROM COSMONAUT CORPS: 1982 - is discharged from the cosmonaut corps because of the appointment to another position.
OCCUPATION AT THE GCTC:
From January 26, 1982 – Chief Division 1, senior test-engineer of the GCTC Department 1;
From June 25, 1986 – Deputy Chief GCTC Department 2 on scientific researches and tests, senior test-engineer;
From September 30, 1987 – Chief Department 2 (simulation) of GCTC;
From March 9, 1989 – Deputy Chief GCTC on scientific work;
From April 2, 1992 – the first Deputy Chief GCTC, Director of Space and Flight Training.
February 29, 2000 – was transferred to the reserve having reached the age limit.
May, 2000 – 2001 – Chief Research Worker of the Yu. A. Gagarin Russian State Scientific-Research and Test Center of Cosmonaut Training.
AWARDS:
Medal "Gold Star" of Hero of the USSR (March 5, 1977),
Order of Lenin (March 5, 1977),
Order of the Red Star (February 21, 1977),
Orders “for Services to the Fatherland” of the 3^rd class (March 2, 2000) and the 4^th class (April 9, 1996),
Medal “for Honour in Guard of the State Border” (1977),
Medal “for the Development of the Virgin Lands” (1977),
Medal “for the Strengthening of Combat Cooperation” (February 18, 1991),
10 commemorative medals,
Order “Friendship” (Kazakhstan),
Medal “The centenary of the Ottoman Yoke collapse” (PRB, November 22, 1978),
Medal “for Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms” (PRB),
Medal “30^th Anniversary of Cuba Republic RMS” (November 24, 1986),
Medals of MPR and GDR,
K.E. Tsiolkovsky Gold Medal (Academy of Sciences of the USSR),
V.M. Komarov Honorary Diploma (FAI),
Badge “Combat Valour” of the L.Y.C.L.S.U. (the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League of the Soviet Union),
Badge “Knight of Science” (Malta),
V.I. Vernadsky Order of the 1^st class,
Medal “The Star of the Blue Planet” (Rosaviakosmos).
HONORARY CITIZEN OF THE FOLLOWING CITIES:
Kaluga, Terek, Gagarin, Kustanai, Djazkazgan, Poznan (Poland).
CURRENT STATUS:
From 1993 –Air Force Major-General in the reserve.

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