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GUBAREV
Alexei Alexandrovich

Pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR CLASSIFICATION: 33/74.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 2.
SPACEFLIGHT HOURS: 37 days 11 hours 35 min. 45 sec.
WORLD PRECEDENCE: a commander of the first International crew in the world (Soyuz-28, USSR-CzSSR, 1978).
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: March 29, 1931, the RSFR (Russia), Kuibyshev region, Borsk district, Gvardeitsy village.
NATIONALITY: Russian.
EDUCATION:
1950 – finished secondary school in Krukovo village, Khimky (present Solnechnogorsk) district, Moscow region;
1952 – graduated from the Naval Mine-torpedo Pilot School;
1957 - 1961 – a student at the Air Force Academy (present the Yu.A. Gagarin Air Force Academy);
1982 – earned his Candidate of technical sciences degree.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
from December 2, 1952 – a pilot, from March 17, 1953 – a senior pilot and a section commander of Air Force mine-torpedo air regiment 1540 with the Pacific Fleet;
from February 14, 1956 – a section commander of Guard’s mine-torpedo air regiment 926 of Air Force mine-torpedo air division 13;
from September 22, 1961 – a squadron commander of Detached mine-torpedo air regiment 855 with the Black See fleet aviation.
DATE OF ENROLLMENT IN COSMONAUT CORPS (GROUP NUMBER, DATE):
January 10, 1963 – was enrolled as a student-cosmonaut of the first team (group 2) in the cosmonaut corps of the Air Force Cosmonaut Training Center by the Air Force Commander-in-Chief order;
January 23, 1965 – a cosmonaut of group 2.
RATING: October 31, 1956 – a second-class military pilot, December 24, 1964 – an instructor of the Air Force Paradrop Training, March 17, 1978 – a second-class cosmonaut.
BACK-UP ACTIVITY:
July - September 1973 – the back-up crew commander of the Soyuz transport vehicle together with G. Grechko;
September 27, 1973 – a back-up man to the Soyuz-12 commander V. Lazarev.
SPACEFLIGHTS PERFORMED:
Flight 1 – January 11 – February 9, 1975 – a crew commander of the Soyuz-17 transport vehicle and the Salyut-4 long-term orbital station on the first mission program together with G. Grechko. Flight duration: 29 days, 13 hours, 19 min. 45 sec. Call sign: “Zenit-1”.
Flight 2 – March 2 - 10, 1978 – a crew commander of the Soyuz-28 transport vehicle on the program of the Visiting Mission to the Salyut-6 long-term orbital station together with V. Remek (CzSSR). Performed his responsibilities together with Yu. Romanenko and G. Grechko. Flight duration: 7 days, 22 hours, 16 min. Call sign: “Zenit-1”.
DISCHARGE FROM COSMONAUT CORPS: 1981 – was discharged from the cosmonaut corps due to the state of health.
AWARDS:
Two medals “Gold Star” of Hero of the Soviet Union (February 12, 1975, March 16, 1978),
Two Orders of Lenin (February 12, 1975, March 16, 1978),
Medal “For Virgin Lands Development” (1974),
9 commemorative medals,
State prizewinner of the Estonian SSR,
Medal “Gold Star” of Hero of the CzSSR (March 1978),
Medal of Chinese-Russian friendship (1955),
Medal “Weapon Fraternity” of the first class (CzSSR and GDR),
K.E. Tsiolkovsky Gold Medal of the USSR Academy of Sciences,
Gold Medal of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
CURRENT STATUS: 1988 – retired from the Armed Forces due to the illness (Air Force Major-General in the reserve).

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