CLASSIFICATION: 16/37.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 1.
SPACE FLIGHT HOURS: 1 day 23 hours 45 min. 50 sec.
EVA OPERATIONS: 1.
TOTAL EVA DURATION: 1 hour.
WORLD RECORD: took part in the ever first docking of two space vehicles (the Soyuz-4/5, 1969); for the first time in the world transferred from one vehicle to another one by translating along the external surface (the Soyuz-4/5, 1969); the first space postman (the Soyuz-4/5, 1969).
PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: September 10, 1933, Prudy village, Volovsk district, Tula region.
NATIONALITY: Russian.
EDUCATION:
For the first four years studied at the secondary school of Prudy village, the following three years – at the secondary school of Nepryadovo village, Volovsk district, Tula region.
1952 – graduated from the agricultural technical school in Ivankovo village, Ivankovskiy district, Tula region, with the major in agriculture mechanization. He was given a qualification of technician-mechanic.
1953 – studied for one year at the Pavlodar military aviation school of initial pilots training, Kiev Military Command.
June 16, 1956 – graduated from Bataisk (Krasnodar) Air force Pilot school with the major in operation and combat usage of planes and their equipment. He was given a qualification of pilot-technician.
1975 – April 22, 1959 – a 2-year student of the Marxism-Leninism University in Beltsy, Moldova. He got higher party education.
September 1961 – January 6, 1968 – a student of the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy, Moscow, specialization – piloted air and space aircraft and their engines. He got honors degree and qualification of the pilot-cosmonaut – engineer
1971 – June 29, 1972 – a student of the correspondence department of the Lenin Military Political Academy. He got honors degree and a qualification of the officer with the military and political education
1971 – he got a science-degree of master for technical studies.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
August 22, 1956 – a military pilot, June 22, 1957 – a senior pilot of Guards fighter air regiment 86 of Nevelsky fighter air division 119 of Air Army 48, Odessa Military Command, the Moldavia Soviet Republic.
DATE OF JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS (GROUP NUMBER, DATE):
March 9, 1960 - May 7, 1967 – was enrolled as a student-cosmonaut (group 1) in the cosmonaut corps of the Air Force Cosmonaut Training Center by the Air Force Commander-in-Chief order;
from April 1961 – a cosmonaut of the cosmonauts corps of the Air Force Cosmonaut training center.
RATING: January 23, 1969 – a third-class cosmonaut,
July 7 1972 – a second-class military pilot, an Air Force airborne regiment instructor (more than 250 jumps).
BACK-UP ACTIVITY:
April-May, 1963 – a Vostok-5 backup cosmonaut under the program of joint expedition of two space vehicles.
August 15, 1964 – February 25, 1965 – a Voshod-2 backup crew pilot, first together with V. Gorbatko, then starting from January 1965 – together with D. Zaikin under the EVA program;
March 18, 1965 – a backup for A. Leonov, the second pilot of the Voshod-2;
from July 1969 – a commander of the backup crew of the Soyuz space vehicle together with Grechko and Kolodin on the program of three space vehicles joint mission.
October 1979 – September 1980 – a commander of the second crew of the visiting crew to Salyut-6 long-duration orbital station under the program of the Soviet-Cuban joint mission together with H.A. Lopes-Falkon (Cuba).
September 18, 1980 – a backup for Y. Romanenko, the commander of the Soyuz-38.
SPACE FLIGHTS PERFORMED:
January 15 to 17, 1969 – took part in the mission as a an engineer-researcher aboard the Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 space vehicles. During the mission he conducted a transfer from the Soyuz-5 into the Soyuz-4 together with A. Yeliseyev. He launched aboard the Soyuz-5 with B. Volynov and A. Yeliseyev and returned onboard the Soyuz-4 with V. Shatalov and A. Yeliseyev. EVA duration:1 hour. Flight duration: 1 day, 23 hours, 45 min. 50 sec.Call sign: Baikal-3/Amur-3.
DISCHARGE FROM COSMONAUT CORPS:
1980 – he was transferred from the cosmonaut corps to another military unit.
1989 – discharged to the reserve (colonel in the reserve).
AWARDS:
Medal “Gold Star” of Hero of the Soviet Union (January22,1969),
Order of Lenin (January 22, 1969),
Order of Red Star (June 12,1961),
11 commemorative medals,
Medal “25^th Anniversary of People’s power” (BPR, 1969),
Medal “25^th Anniversary of the Bulgarian People’s Army,
K.E. Tsiolkovsky Gold Medal of the USSR Academy of Sciences,
V. M. Komarov Honors diploma (November 22, 1970),
Deu Lavo Medal,
Medal “S. P. Korolev Soviet Aviation Sport Federation” (September 26, 1972).
DATE AND CAUSE OF DEATH: May 19, 2000 – death was caused by heart attack. He’s buried at the Hovanskoe cemetery, Moscow.

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