CLASSIFICATION: 13/34.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 3.
SPACEFLIGHT HOURS: 9 days 21 hours 57 minutes 30 seconds.
WORLD PIONEER ACTIONS: was the first to perform manual docking of two manned space vehicles (“Soyuz-4/5”, 1969); took part in the first joint flight of three space vehicles (“Soyuz-6/7/8”, 1969); took part in the first docking of the “Souyz-10” spacecraft and “Salyut” orbital station (1971).
PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: Born December 1927 in Petropavlovsk, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakh SSR.
NATIONALITY: Russian.
EDUCATION:
June, 1941- finished 6 classes of secondary school No.4 in Leningrad (at present Saint-Petersburg);
September, 1941 – June, 1943 – learned and finished eight-year school in Petropavlovsk (Kazakh SSR);
1945 – finished the 6^th Voronezh special school of the Air Force in Karaganda and Lipetzk;
1949 – graduated from the Kacha A.F.Miasnikov Red Banner Higher Aviation School of Pilots on the first grade;
1956- graduated with honors from the Red Banner Higher Military Academy of the USSR’s Air Force (later named for Yu.A.Gagarin) in Monino, Moscow Region.
1972 – earned a candidate of technical sciences degree.
EXPERIENCE BEFORE COSMONAUT CORPS:
from September 7, 1949 – instructor-pilot, 706 Air regiment of the Kacha Higher Air Force School;
from June 14,1951 – instructor-pilot on flying technique, 706 Air regiment of the Kacha Higher Air Force School;
December 12, 1951 – instructor-pilot of operational use, 707 Air Regiment;
from November, 1956 – deputy commander of an air squadron, then commander of an air squadron;
from May, 1960 – deputy commander, air regiment in the Air Force line units;
from February, 1961 – senior inspector-pilot, combat training department of 48 Air Army, Odessa Military District.
ENROLLMENT (ENROLLMENT №, DATE):
January 10, 1963 – enlisted in the cosmonaut corps of the Air Forces’ CTC as a candidate cosmonaut of the first group (2^nd enrollment) by the Air Force Commander-in- Chief Order;
from January 23,1965 – cosmonaut of the 2^nd group.
QUALIFICATION: first-class military pilot (1960), first-class cosmonaut (1971).
BACKUP ACTIVITY:
May 3 – December, 1965 – commander of the 3^rd (stand-by) crew of the “Voskhod-3” spacecraft together with Yu.Artyukhin (mission was planned on November, 1965, but adjourned many times);
January – May 10, 1966 – second pilot of the second crew of the “Voskhod-3” spacecraft together with G.Beregovoy for the military program (planned mission duration – 16-20 days);
January, 1967 – January, 1968 – commander of the third crew of the passive “Soyuz” spacecraft together with V.Volkov and P.Kolodin for the two space vehicles on-orbit docking program;
February – July, 1968 – commander of the active “Soyuz” spacecraft (3^rd crew) for the “Stykovka” program;
October 26, 1968 – backup of G.Beregovoy, commander of the “Soyuz-3” spacecraft;
August 8 – September 17, 1969 – backup crew commander of the “Soyuz-6” and “Soyuz-8” spacecraft (together with A.Yeliseyev), “Soyuz-7” spacecraft (together with A.Yeliseyev and P.Kolodin);
August 17, 1970 – commander of the third crew for the first expedition program aboard the “Salyut-1” orbital station together with V.Volkov and V.Patsayev.
SPACE MISSIONS:
1st mission – January 14-17, 1969: commander of the ”Soyuz-4” spacecraft; performed docking with the “Soyuz-5” spacecraft, after that E.Khrunov and A.Yeliseyev made a space walk from the “Soyuz-5” to the “Soyuz-4”, returning to Earth with A.Shatalov.Mission duration: 02 days 23 hours 20 minutes 47 seconds. Call sign: “Amur-1”;
2nd mission – October 13-18, 1969: commander of the “Soyuz-8” spacecraft (together with A.Yeliseyev) and commander of the three spacecraft (“Soyuz-6/7/8) group. He was unable to perform docking of the “Soyuz-8” and “Soyuz-7” spacecraft because of the “Igla” rendezvous and docking system of the “Soyuz-8” failure. Mission duration:04 days 22 hours 50 minutes 49 seconds. Call sign: “Granit-1”.
3rd mission – April 23-25, 1971: commander of the “Soyuz 10” spacecraft together with A.Yeliseyev and N.Rukavishnikov. The first docking with the “Salyut” orbital station was fulfilled. However, because of the spacecraft’s docking system failure full mating of the station and spacecraft was not reached and as a result good pressurization was not provided. So transition from the spacecraft into the station was called of and early landing was performed. Mission duration: 01 days 23 hours 45 minutes 54 seconds. Call sign: Granit-1”.
DISCHARGE FROM COSMONAUT CORPS:
1998 – discharged from the cosmonaut corps due to assignment as Assistant on cosmonaut training and space mission provision of the Air Force Commander-in-Chief.
EXPERIENCE IN CTC:
1987-1991 – Chief, Yu.A.Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
AWARDS/SPECIAL HONORS:
2 medals “Gold Star” of Hero of the Soviet Union (January 22, 1969, October 22, 1969),
3 Orders of Lenin (January 22 1969, April 30, 1971, January 15, 1976),
Order of October Revolution (December 27, 1982),
Order “For Service in the Armed Forces of the USSR” of the III class (February 22, 1989),
Order of Merits to the Country of the IV class (March 2, 2000),
Medal of Battlefield Merit (December 30, 1957),
Medal of Defense of Leningrad (1986),
Medal of Newground Reclamation (1969),
Medal of Battlefield Fellowship Strengthening (May 24, 1982),
17 commemorative medals,
State Prize of the USSR (for the “Interkosmos” program, 1981),
Order of Playa Khiron (Cuba, 1980),
Order of Solidarity (Cuba, 1983),
Medal “20 years of the Revolutionary Armed Forces” (Cuba),
Order of Karl Marx (German Democratic Republic, 1977),
Order of the State Banner (PRH, 1981),
Medal “Gold Star of the SRV’s Hero”,
Order of Kho Shi Mine (1980),
Order “North Star” (MPR, August, 1983),
Order of Friendship of People,
Medal of Martial Gallantry (SAR),
Medal “Weapon Brotherhood” of the III class (GDR, 1978),
Medal “For Weapon Brotherhood Strengthening” (PRB, 1977),
Medal “25 years of the People’s Power” PRB),
Medal “Centenary of Bulgaria threw off the Ottoman EmpireYoke” (PRB),
Gold Medal “For Battlefield Fellowship” (PRH, June 20, 1980),
Decoration badge “Weapon Brotherhood” (PRP, 1977),
Medal “For Weapon Brotherhood Strengthening” (Czechoslovakia, 1980),
Medal of Martial Gallantry of the I class (CPP, 1980),
8 medals and 2 orders of Austria and Syria,
Gold Medal of K.E.Tsiolkovsky of the USSR’s Academy of Sciences (1969),
Gold Medal of Yu.A.Gagarin (FAI),
Honorary Diploma of V.M.Komarov (FAI, for “Soyuz-4 and 5” flight, November 22, 1970),
Diploma of the Sweden Royal Aeronautical Society October 17, 1985),
Medal of Academician S.P.Korolyov of the ASF of the USSR (September 26, 1972),
Gold Medal of K.E.Tsiolkovsky of the AF of the USSR (March 30, 1989),
Medal of Yu.A.Gagarin of the AF of the USSR (April 2, 1981),
Decoration badge “For Merit in Physical Culture and Sport Development” (1976),
Decoration badge “For Contribution in Friendship” of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries,
Badge “For active work in Komsomol” of the Young Communist League’s Central Committee,
Winner Diploma of the I class of the All-Union Competition “The Young Guards of the Soviet Country”, dedicated to 60-year history of the Young Communist League for the book “The Hard Road to Space” (Moscow, 1978).
Honorary citizen of Kaluga, Petropavlovsk, Nalchik, Karaganda, Kurgan, Gagarin, Prague, Houston.
Crater on the Moon is named after Shatalov
СURRENT STATUS: 1992 – lieutenant general of aviation in the reserve.

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