CLASSIFICATION: 11/15.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 2.
SPACEFLIGHT HOURS: 7 days 00 hours 33 min. 08 sec.
EVA OPERATIONS: 1.
TOTAL EVA TIME: 23 minutes 41 seconds.
WORLD PRECEDENCE: performed the world’s first extravehicular activity (the Voskhod-2); a participant of the first international spaceflight, the Soyuz-Apollo (the Soyuz-19, 1975).
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: May 30, 1934, the RSFSR (Russia), Kemerovo region, Tisoul district, Listvianka village.
NATIONALITY: Russian.
EDUCATION:
1953- completed the ten-year course of the Kaliningrad (former Konigsberg) secondary school No.21;
1955 - graduated from the Kremenchoug Military Aviation Pilot Basic Training School 10;
1950 - graduated from the Tchuguev Higher Air Force Pilot School;
September, 1961 - January, 1968 - student of the N. E. Zhukovsky Higher Military Engineering Academy on the specialty of “Design and application of air-spacecraft and their engines”. Was qualified as a “pilot-cosmonaut-engineer”;
1975 - was granted a degree of Candidate of Technology.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
From October 30, 1957 – pilot in parachute aviation regiment 113 of the Guards engineering aviation division of the Air Army 69, Kiev military district.
From December 14, 1959 – senior pilot of the separate scouting air regiment 294 of the Air Army 24, Group of Soviet Armed Forces in Germany.
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 April 5, 1961 - cosmonaut of Cosmonaut Training Center cosmonaut group.
RATING: an Air Force parachute training instructor, a first-class military pilot ( 1965 ), a second-class cosmonaut (1975).
BACK-UP ACTIVITY:
April-May, 1963 - back-up pilot for “Vostok-5” spacecraft on the program of the two spacecraft group flight;
May 13, 1970 - back-up crew commander of the Salyut long-term orbital station 1;
September 18, 1970 - March 20, 1971- back-up crew commander on the program of Expedition 1 together with V. Kubasov and P. Kolodin;
April 23, 1971 – back-up to the Soyuz-10 spacecraft V. Shatalov.
SPACEFLIGHTS PERFORMED:
The 1st flight – March 18-19, 1965, the 2^nd pilot of the Voskhod-2 spacecraft together with P. Beliayev. During the flight he performed the world’s first extravehicular activity. During the returning to the Earth automatic control system failed and P. Beliayev performed manual control of landing, which took place in off-nominal area 180 km from Perm town. The crew was found in four hours in the forest (between Sorokovaya and Schuchino villages) and evacuated from the landing site in two days. Flight duration: 1 day 02 hours 02 minutes 17 seconds. Call sign: “Almaz-1”.
The 2nd flight – July 15-21, 1975, a commander of the Soyuz-19 spacecraft on APAS program together with V. Kubasov. During the flight two dockings with the Apollo spacecraft (USA, the crew – T. Stafford, V. Brand and D. Slaiton) were performed. During the mated flight the crewmembers transferred from one vehicle to the other. Flight duration: 5 days 22 hours 30 minutes 51 seconds. Call sign: “Soyuz-1”.
DISCHARGE FROM COSMONAUT CORPS: 1982 - is discharged from the cosmonaut corps because of the appointment to another position.
OCCUPATION AT THE GCTC:
From January 26, 1982 - 1991 - the 1st Deputy Yu.A. Gagarin Chief Cosmonaut Training Center on flight and space training.
AWARDS:
Two medals "Gold Star" of Hero of the USSR (1965, 1975);
Two Orders of Lenin (1965, 1975);
Order of the Red Star (1961);
Order "for Serving Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" of the third class (1975);
Order “for Services to the Fatherland” of the fourth class (March 2, 2000);
9 commemorative medals;
State Prize of the USSR (1981);
Lenin Komsomol Prize (1980);
Medal "Gold Star" of Hero of People's Republic of Bulgaria (1965);
Order of Georgy Dimitrov (PRB, 1965);
Order of Karl Marks and Medal of A. Bekker (GDR, 1965);
Medal "Gold Star" of Hero of Labor of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam;
Order of "The State Banner of the Hungarian People's Republic" (1965);
Order “for Honor” of the 1^st class (Syria, 1966);
“Gold Medal of Partisan” (Italy, 1967);
K.E. Tsiolkovsky Gold Medal (Academy of Sciences of the USSR);
Needla Medal (CzSSR);
Gold Medal “for Services in science development and to the mankind” (CzSSR);
Two Gold Medals "Kosmos (Space)";
Two de Laveau Medal;
Yu.A. Gagarin Gold Medal (FAI);
K. Harmon International Aviation Prize;
Distinguishing Badge of Voluntary Society for Assisting Army, Air Force and Navy of the USSR (1965);
S.P.Korolev Medal of FAS of the USSR (1972);
Gold Medals of Saloniki and Larissa towns (Greece, 1965).
HONORARY CITIZEN OF THE FOLLOWING CITIES:
Perm, Krementchoug, Kaliningrad, Nalchik, Kaluga, Vologda, Arkalyk, Svischiov, Vidin, Tyrnovo (Czechia), San-Antonio (Chile), Usti-na-Labe.
HONORARY TITLES: Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1965, 1975), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1965).
BRONZE BUSTS: on the Avenue of Hero-Cosmonauts in Moscow and his Motherland.
CURRENT STATUS:
From March 9, 1992 –Air Force Major-General in the reserve.

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