TITOV
Gherman Stepanovich
CLASSIFICATION: 2/2.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 1.
SPACEFLIGHT HOURS: 1 day 01 hours 18 min.
WORLD PRECEDENCE: world’s first flight lasted longer than 1 day (“Vostok-2”, 1961); the youngest cosmonaut flied to space. On the launch date he was 25 years 10 months 25 days.
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: September 11, 1935, the RSFSR (Russia), Altay region, Kosikhinsky district, Verkhneye Zhilino village.
NATIONALITY: Russian.
EDUCATION:
1953 - graduated from Nalobikhinsk secondary school;
1955 - graduated from the Air Force MilitaryPilot Basic training school 9;
1957 - graduated from the Stalingrad Military Aviation Pilot School named after the Red Banner Stalingrad Proletariat, Novosibirsk, with the 1st class Honours degree and qualification of “military pilot”;
September 1, 1961 – March 2, 1968 – student of the N.Ye. Zhukovsky Higher Military Engineering Academy on the specialty “Manned aircraft and spacecraft and their engines”. After the graduation acquired the Honour degree qualifying as a pilot-cosmonaut-engineer”;
1972 – graduated from the Military Academy of the USSR Armed Forces General Staff. Upon the graduation was granted the qualification of “officer with higher military education”;
1980 - was granted a degree of Candidate of Military Sciences.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
From November 5, 1957 – a pilot of the Guards fighter aviation regiment 26, fighter aviation division 41, Air Army 76, Leningrad Military district, Siverskaya village;
October 28, 1959 – was transferred to the position of senior pilot in fighter aviation regiment 103 of the same division.
DATE OF ENROLLMENT IN COSMONAUT CORPS (GROUP NUMBER, DATE):
March 7, 1960 - was enrolled as a student-cosmonaut in the cosmonaut corps of the Air Force Cosmonaut Training Center by the Air Force commander-in-chief order ( the first enrollment );
From January 25, 1961 – after the completion of Cosmonaut basic training course was appointed to the position of cosmonaut and was granted the qualification of “Air Force Cosmonaut”.
BACK-UP ACTIVITY:
April 8, 1961 - back-up pilot of the Vostok spacecraft and was a back-up to Yu.A. Gagarin, April 12, 1961;
SPACEFLIGHTS PERFORMED:
August 6-7, 1961, a pilot of the Vostok-2 spacecraft. It was world’s first flight, which lasted for more than one day. Flight duration: 1 days 01 hours 18 minutes. Call sign: “Oryol”.
DISCHARGE FROM COSMONAUT CORPS:
1970 - is discharged from the cosmonaut corps due to the entrance to the full-time tuition of the USSR Armed Forces General Staff Military Academy .
AWARDS:
Medal "Gold Star" of Hero of the USSR (August 9, 1961),
Two Orders of Lenin (June 17, 1961., August 9, 1961),
Order of the October Revolution (February 21, 1985),
Order of the Red Banner of Labor (January 15, 1976),
Order “for Services to the Country”, III class (December, 1995),
Medal “for The Development of the Virgin Lands” (August, 1961),
9 commemorative medals,
Lenin prize winner in the sphere of science and technology (1988),
Lomonosov prize winner (for the film he made during the spaceflight),
Medal "Gold Star" of Hero of Labor of the DRV (January 21, 1962),
Order of Kho Shi Min (SRV), Order “Friendship”,
Medal "Gold Star" of Hero of Socialist Labor of PRB (September 27, 1962),
Order of Georgy Dimitrov (PRB, September 27, 1962),
Medal “The 25th Anniversary of People’s Authority” (PRB),
Medal "Gold Star" of Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic (December 10, 1961),
Order of Sukhe-Bator (MPR, December 10, 1961),
Order of Karl Marks (GDR, September 1, 1961),
Gold Medal “for Exemplary Work” (GDR, September 4, 1961),
Order of the Star of Indonesia, class II (January 9, 1962),
Order of the Star of Yugoslavia with the Ribbon (September 19, 1962),
Order of the Star of Romania, class I (October 14, 1961),
Order of the Star of Congo Republic (1965),
Order of Friendship and Cooperation (SAR, 1988),
Medal “The 30th Anniversary of the Victory over the Militarist Japan” (MPR, January 8, 1976),
Medal “The Centenary of Georgy Dimitrov” (PRB, February 14, 1983),
Honour Badge of the President of Ukraine for the “Zenith” Complex (April 11, 1995),
K.E. Tsiolkovski Gold Medal (Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1961),
Medal de Laveau (FAI), Gold Medal of Exhibition of National Economic Achievement of the USSR (December 28, 1961),
Certificate of the Honoured Brigade of the Communist Labour of mail box 6, which included the following members: Yu. Gagarin, G. Titov, A. Nikolayev and P. Popovich (May 8, 1963),
Diploma of Honour of Exhibition of National Economic Achievement of the USSR (December 14, 1967),
Honoured Sailor of “Sverdlov” cruiser (January 4, 1964).
RATING: a first-class pilot (1961), a third-class cosmonaut (1967)/
DATE AND CAUSE OF DEATH: September 20, 2000 – cardiac insufficiency. Was buried at Novodevichiye cemetery, Moscow.