KLIMUK
Pyotr Ilyich
Pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR
CLASSIFICATION: 28/69.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 3.
SPACEFLIGHT HOURS: 78 days 18 hours
18 min. 42 sec.
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: July 10, 1942,
the BSSR (Byelorussia), Brest region, Komarovka village.
NATIONALITY: Byelorussian.
EDUCATION:
1959 – finished secondary school in Komarovka
village, Brest region;
1960 – completed the first-year course
at the Air Force military aviation school for pilots of preliminary training
¹10 in Kremenchug. The school was disbanded;
1964 – graduated from the Chernigov Higher
Air Force School named after Lenin Komsomol with the certificate in the
field of “Combat use and aircraft operation”;
1973 – June 26, 1977 – an external
student at the Yu.A. Gagarin Red Banner Air Force Academy, specialization
– “Command-staff tactical aviation”;
August 20, 1979 – June 25, 1983 – a
student at the V.I. Lenin Politico-Military Academy. Completed the correspondence
course of the command faculty with a first-class honours degree;
1987 – completed the Academic refresher
courses for the leading staff at the V.I. Lenin Politico-Military Academy;
November 29, 1991 – Member (academician)
of the K.E. Tsiolkovsky Russian Cosmonautics Academy ;
1995 – earned his candidate of technical
sciences degree;
March 1996 – Corresponding Member, from
December 2000 –academician of the International Academy of Information
Science;
September 19, 1997 – Professor of the
UNESCO department, Corresponding Member of the International Astronautics
Academy;
2000 – was granted the degree of Doctor
of Technology.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
from December 4, 1964 – was at the command
of the Commander of ADF DA 6;
from December 9, 1964 – a pilot and a
senior pilot of ADF Guard’s FAR 57, Leningrad Military district.
DATE OF ENROLLMENT IN COSMONAUT CORPS (GROUP
NUMBER, DATE):
December 28, 1965 – was enrolled in the
cosmonaut corps of the Air Force Cosmonaut Training Center as a student-cosmonaut
(group 3) by the Air Force Commander-in-Chief order;
December 30, 1967 – a cosmonaut of group
2.
RATING: October 26, 1964 – a third-class
military pilot, 1978 – a first-class cosmonaut, an instructor of
the Air Force Paradrop Training (65 parachute jumps).
BACK-UP ACTIVITY:
September 1968 –
a back-up man to V. Bykovsky;
October 10, 1971 – July 1972 – a
commander of the fourth (reserve ) crew together with V. Sevastyanov;
October 25, 1972 – April 10, 1973 –
a
commander of the reserve (fourth) crew together with V. Sevastyanov;
May-December 1973 – a commander of the
Soyuz-13 back-up crew on astrophysical program together with V. Lebedev;
January – December 1974 – a commander
of the reserve (third) crew together with V. Sevastyanov;
January – March 13, 1975 – a commander
of the Soyuz-18-1 back-up crew for the flight to the Salyut-4 long-term
orbital station together with V. Sevastyanov;
April 5, 1975 – a back-up man to the Soyuz-18-1
commander V. Lazarev.
SPACEFLIGHTS PERFORMED:
The first flight – December
18-26, 1973 – a commander of the Soyuz-13
crew (together with V. Lebedev) on the astrophysical program “Orion-2”.
Flight duration: 7 days 20 hours 55 min. 35 sec. Call
sign: “Kavkaz-1”;
The second flight – May 24 – June
26, 1975 – a commander of the
Soyuz-18 spacecraft and the Salyut-4 LOS together with V. Sevastyanov.
Flight duration: 62 days 23 hours 20 min. 08 sec.
Call
sign: “Kavkaz-1”;
The third flight – June 27 – July 5, 1978
– a commander of the Soviet-Polish
crew together with M. Hermaszewski (Poland) aboard the Soyuz-30 spacecraft
and the Salyut-6 long-term orbital station together with V. Kovalyonok
and A. Ivanchenkov. Flight duration: 7 days 22 hours 02 min. 59
sec. Call sign: “Kavkaz-1”.
DISCHARGE FROM COSMONAUT CORPS:
1982 – left the cosmonaut corps due to
the assignment to a new position.
OCCUPATION AT THE GCTC:
from March 3, 1982 – Deputy Chief of the
Yu.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center for political affairs (Chief of
the GCTC political department);
from April 3, 1991 – Chief of the politico-military
department, Deputy Chief of the GCTC;
from September 12, 1991 – Chief of the
Yu.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
AWARDS:
Two Medals “Gold Star” of Hero of the Soviet
Union (1973, 1975),
Three Orders of Lenin (1973, 1975, 1978),
Order “For good service to the Country in the
Armed Forces”, class III (1984),
Order of Merit to the Country, class IV (April
9, 1996),
Order of Merit to the Country, class III (March
2, 2000),
Commemorative medals,
State Prizewinner of the USSR (1978),
State Prize of the Estonian SSR,
Grunwald Cross, class I (Poland),
Order “Parasat” of Kazakhstan Republic (1995),
Two breastplates “Weapon Fraternity” (PRB),
Medal “Weapon Fraternity”, class I (CzSSR),
Medal “Centenary of the Ottoman Yoke Fall” (PRB),
Medal “From Grateful Afghan People” (1988) and
other,
Prize from the Journalists Union of the USSR
(1975),
Prize from Lenin Komsomol for the film “Ordinary
space” (1977),
K.E. Tsiolkovsky Gold Medal of the USSR Academy
of Sciences,
Gold Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the
Polish People’s Republic (1978),
FAI Diploma in the name of V.M. Komarov,
FAI Yu.A. Gagarin Gold Medal,
Distinguishing badge of the L.Y.C.L.S.U. Central
Committee “Military Valour”,
Distinguishing badge of the L.Y.C.L.S.U. Central
Committee
CURRENT STATUS: colonel-general in the
reserve.