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Boris Valentinovich Volynov (‹See Tfd› Russian: Бори́с Валенти́нович Волы́нов; born 18 December 1934) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21. Following the death of Alexei Leonov in October 2019, he is the last surviving member of the original group of ...
Apr 19, 2018 · Graduated from Military Pilot School, Novosibirsk, 1955; graduated from Zhukovsky Air Force Military Engineering Academy, 1968; candidate of technical sciences degree, 1980; Colonel and pilot, Soviet Air Forces, was selected as cosmonaut on 07.03.1960 (TsPK -1); OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 4/60 - 03.04.1961; was assigned as backup for three ...
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- Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russian SFSR
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Oct 15, 2024 · December 18, 2020. 281. 0. Boris Volynov, the first Jew in space, was born in Irkutsk, Siberia, on this date in 1934. He was chosen in 1960 to be one of the Soviet Union’s first cosmonauts, but the uncovering of his Jewish background (his mother, a physician, was Jewish) kept him grounded as a “backup” crewman for eight years, until the ...
Boris Volynov (born December 18, 1934) is a Jewish Russian cosmonaut widely considered to be the first Jew to go into space. Volynov was born in the Siberian city of Irkutsk in the former Soviet Union and grew up in Prokopevsk, a town located in the Kemerovo Oblast region of southern Russia. Once in the military, Volynov attended the Higher Air ...
Boris Volynov is a cosmonaut who was born on December 18, 1934, in Irhutsk, Siberia. Volynov became a cosmonaut in 1960. He has spent over 52 days in space on two spaceflights. In 1969, Volynov flew aboard Soyuz 5. The crew docked with the Soyuz 4 and two members transferred over to Soyuz 4. Volynov made a second flight aboard the Salyut 5 ...
Jun 3, 2015 · June 3, 2015 7:00 AM EDT. I t was exactly 50 years ago—on June 3, 1965—that astronaut Edward White stepped into space. White wasn’t the first human to do so. A few months earlier, the USSR ...
Volynov was then transferred to prepare for flights as part of the Soviet lunar program. In 1968, Volynov graduated from the N.E. Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy. He was also the backup crew member for the Soyuz-3 mission in October 1968. On January 15-18, 1969, Volynov made his first spaceflight as the commander of the Soyuz-5 spacecraft.
