CLASSIFICATION: 5/9
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 3.
SPACEFLIGHT HOURS: 20 days 17 hours 48 min. 21 sec.
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: August 2, 1934, the RSFSR (Russia), Moscow region, Pavlovsky Posad town.
NATIONALITY: Russian.
EDUCATION:
1941 – 1948 – studied in secondary schools of the following towns: Pavlovsky Posad, Kuibyshev (at present – Samara), Syzran, Moscow and Teheran (Iran), where he lived with his parents, the officers of Ministry of Traffic;
June 1953 – graduated from the 6^th Military Air Force School of Pilot Basic Training;
1955 – graduated from the Kacha Red Banner Air Force School of Pilots named after A.F. Miasnikov, Severo-Kavkazski Military District;
September, 1961 – January, 1968 – a student of the engineering faculty of the N.E. Zhukovsky Higher Military Engineering Academy. After the graduation was qualified as “pilot-cosmonaut-engineer”;
1973 – was granted a degree of Candidate of Technology.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
From January 23, 1956 – a pilot, from December 23, 1957 - senior pilot of fighter aviation regiment 23 of fighter aviation division 17.
DATE OF ENROLLMENT IN COSMONAUT CORPS (GROUP NUMBER, DATE):
March 7, 1960 - was enrolled as a student-cosmonaut of the Air Force Cosmonaut Training Center by the Air Force commander-in-chief order (the 1^st enrollment);
January 25, 1961 - was appointed to a cosmonaut position and qualified as “Air Force cosmonaut”.
RATING: a first-class military pilot (1963), a first-class cosmonaut (1978).
BACK-UP ACTIVITY:
November, 1961 – May, 1962 – preparation for the first group flight of “Vostok” spacecraft as a back-up to the Vostok-3 spacecraft;
August 11, 1962 – back-up to the Vostok-3 pilot A. Nikolayev.
SPACEFLIGHTS PERFORMED:
The 1^st flight – June 14 - 19, 1963, as a pilot of the Vostok-5 spacecraft. Performed the group flight with the Vostok-6 spacecraft ( pilot – V. Tereshkova ). Flight duration: 4 days 23 hours 07 minutes. Call sign: “Yastreb-1”;
The 2^nd flight – September 15 - 23, 1976 as a commander of the Soyuz-22 spacecraft together with V. Aksionov. During the flight the MKF-6 multiple-zone camera, made in GDR, was tested and used. Flight duration: 7 days 21 hours 52 minutes 17 seconds. Call sign: “Yastreb”;
The 3^rd flight – August 26 – September 3, 1978, as a commander of the Soyuz-31 spacecraft Soviet-German crew on the program of the Salyut-6 orbital station Visiting Crew 4 together with S. Jaehn (GDR). Worked on the station together with V. Kovalenok and A. Ivanchenkov. Flight duration: 7 days 20 hours 49 minutes 04 seconds. Call sign: “Yastreb”.
DISCHARGE FROM COSMONAUT CORPS: 1982 - is discharged from the cosmonaut corps because of the appointment to a new position.
ACTIVITY AT THE GCTC:
January 26, 1982 – Chief GCTC Scientific Research Institute Department 1 Division 3;
October 9, 1986 - Chief GCTC Scientific Research Institute Department 1 Division 13;
April 2, 1988 – was transferred to the reserve having reached the age limit.
AWARDS:
Two Medals “Gold Star” of Hero of the USSR (1963., 1976),
Three Orders of Lenin (1963,1976,1978),
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1976),
Order of the Red Star (1961),
Order “for the Development of the Virgin Lands” (1963),
9 commemorative medals,
Medal “Gold Star” of Hero of Labour of SRV (1963),
Medal “Gold Star” of Hero of Socialist Labour of PRB (1963),
Order of Georgy Dimitrov (PRB, 1963),
Order of Grunwald Cross , class I (PPR, 1963),
Order of the Star, class II,
K.E. Tsiolkovsky Gold Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR,
Medal de Laveau,
Gold Medal “for Distinguishing Honour” and Honorary Diploma of the Royal Air Club of Sweden,
Medal “The 50^th Anniversary of the Kazakhi SSR” (1970),
Medal devoted to the 10^th anniversary of F. Engels Military Academy (GDR, 1970),
Medal devoted to the Centenary of V.I. Lenin and 150^th anniversary of F. Engels (GDR, 1970),
Medal of Plovdiv District council (PRB, 1963).
HONORARY CITIZEN OF THE FOLLOWING CITIES:
Kaluga, Tselinograd, Pavlovski Posad, Rjev, Burgas and Varna.
CURRENT STATUS:
From April 2,1988 –colonel in the reserve.

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