CLASSIFICATION: 21/43.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 3.
SPACEFLIGHT HOURS: 30 days 12 hours 48 min. 21 sec.
WORLD PRECEDENCE: a participant of the group flight of three manned spacecraft (“Soyuz-6”, -7, -8, 1969)
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: December 3, 1934, the RSFSR (Russia), Krasnodar region, Gulkevich district, village of “Ventsy-Zarya” State farm.
NATIONALITY: Russian.
EDUCATION:
1949 - completed the seven-year course of secondary school №2 at “Voskhod” stud-farm;
1952 – completed the ten-year course of secondary school №4 at bio-factory No.12 of Krasnodar region Novokubanski district;
1953 – graduated from the 8^th Military Aviation School of Pilot Basic Training, Ukraine., Dnepropetrovsk region., Pavlograd town;
1962 – graduated from the A.K. Serov Bataisk Military Aviation Pilot School, the RSFSR., Rostov region., Bataisk town;
1961 - 1968 – student of the N.E. Zhukovsky Higher Military engineering Academy. Graduated qualifiing as “pilot-engineer-cosmonaut”.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
From August 22, 1956 – a pilot;
From June 22, 1957 – senior pilot of Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment 86 of Odessa Military District, Moldova.
DATE OF ENROLLMENT IN COSMONAUT CORPS (GROUP NUMBER, DATE):
March 7, 1960 - was enrolled as a student-cosmonaut in the Air Force Cosmonaut Training Center by the Air Force commander-in-chief order (the 1^st enrollment);
From April 5, 1961 - cosmonaut of the Cosmonaut Training Center Cosmonaut Group.
RATING: Air Force parachute training instructor (1960), a second-class military pilot (1972), a first-class cosmonaut (1980).
BACK-UP ACTIVITY:
February, 1966 – April, 1967 – an engineer-researcher of the Soyuz passive spacecraft back-up crew on the “Docking” program, first with A. Nikolayev and P. Kolodin and from September, 1966 – with A. Nikolayev and V. Kubasov;
June, 1967 – December, 1968 – an engineer-researcher of the Soyuz passive spacecraft back-up crew on the “Docking” program together with A. Nikolayev and V. Kubasov and from August, 1968 – with A. Filipchenko and V. Kubasov;
January 15, 1969 – back-up to the Soyuz-5 spacecraft engineer-researcher Ye. Khrunov;
July-September 30, 1976 – a commander of the back-up crew on the program of the Almaz (“Salyut-5”) Orbital Manned Station Expedition 2together with Yu. Glazkov;
October 14, 1976 – back-up to the Soyuz-32 spacecraft commander V. Zudov;
August 22, 1977 – August 9, 1978 – commander of the back-up visiting crew to the Salyut-6 long-term orbital station together with E. Kelner (GDR);
August 26, 1978 – back-up to the Soyuz-31 spacecraft commander V. Bykovsky.
SPACEFLIGHTS PERFORMED:
The 1^st flight – October 12-17, 1969, as an engineer-researcher of the Soyuz-7 spacecraft together with A. Filipchenko and V. Volkov on the program of the group flight of the three Soyuz-6,-7,-8 spacecraft. Docking with the Soyuz-8 spacecraft was not performed. Flight duration: 4 days 22 hours 40 minutes 23 seconds. Call sign: “Buran-3”.
The 2^nd flight – February 7-25, 1977, as a commander of the Soyuz-24 spacecraft and the Salyut-5 (“Almaz” Orbital Manned Station-103) Orbital Station together with Yu. Glazkov. Flight duration: 17 days 17 hours 25 minutes 58 seconds. Call sign: “Terek-1”.
The 3^rd flight – July 23-31, 1980, as the Soyuz-37 spacecraft commander (landed on the Soyuz-36 spacecraft) on the program of the Salyut-6 long-term orbital station visiting crew together with Pham Tuan (SRV). Worked with L. Popov and V. Riumin on the station. Flight duration: 7 days 20 hours 42 minutes. Call sign: “Terek-1”.
DISCHARGE FROM COSMONAUT CORPS: 1982 - is discharged from the cosmonaut corps because of the appointment to another position.
AWARDS:
Two Medals "Gold Star" of Hero of the USSR (1969, 1977),
Three Orders of Lenin (1969, 1976, 1980),
Order of the Red Star (1961),
Medal “for Honour in Guard of the State Border” (1977),
Two Medals “for the Development of the Virgin Lands” (1969, 1977),
Medal “The 50^th anniversary of Soviet Militia” (1969),
10 commemorative medals,
Medal “Gold Star” of Hero of MPR (1971),
Medal “Gold Star” of Hero of Labour of SRV (1980),
Order of Sukhe-Bator (MPR, 1971),
Order of Kho Shi Min, I class (SRV, 1980),
Order of the Combat Red Banner (MPR, 1974),
Medal “Brotherhood in Arms” (GDR, 1979),
Medal “The 25^th Anniversary of PRB”,
Medal “for Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms” (PRB),
Medal “Brotherhood in Arms” (PPR),
Medal “The 40^th Anniversary of the Emancipation” (DPRK),
Medal “Friendship” (MPR),
Medal “The 50^th Anniversary of the Mongolian People’s Revolution” (1971),
Medal “The 60^th Anniversary of the Mongolian People’s Revolution” (1981),
Medal “The 50^th Anniversary of the Mongolian People’s Army” (1971),
Medal “The 60^th Anniversary of the Mongolian People’s Army” (1981),
Medal “The 40^th Anniversary of the Victory at Khalkhin Gol” (MPR, 1979),
Medal “The 50^th Anniversary of the Victory at Khalkhin Gol” (MPR, 1989),
Medal “The 30^th Anniversary of the Victory over the Japanese Militarists” (MPR, 1975),
K.E. Tsiolkovsky Gold Medal (Academy of Sciences of the USSR),
Medal “In memory of Gagarin Town 250^th Anniversary”,
Medal of the International public charity fund of the Russian space exploration support “for the Services to Space Exploration” (1998).
HONORARY CITIZEN OF THE FOLLOWING CITIES:
Krasnodar, Kaluga, Gagarin, Armavir, Bataisk, Goriachy Kliuch, Tikhoretsk, Novokubansk, Karaganda, Leninsk, Kustanai, Arkalyk, Aktiubinsk, Tiraspol, Terek, Ordjonikidze, etc.
CURRENT STATUS:
From 1992 – Air Force Major-General in the reserve.

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