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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 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 ...
Boris Volynov was the first Jew in space. Antisemitism nearly prevented him from going. Volynov and Gargarin picnicked together during their training. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. By David Ian ...
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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O 2. K 4. December 18, 1934 —. Who was the first Jew in space? No, not Judith Resnik; she was the first Jewish American and the first Jewish woman. Judith's first flight came in 1984 (two years before she perished in the Challenger disaster). But the first Jew to venture into the final frontier was Soviet cosmonaut Boris Volynov, who went ...
Jan 9, 2018 · Boris Volynov (left), the first Jew in space, on a Soviet postage stamp . Although Judith Resnick was the first Jewish American in space, she was not the first Jew in space. That honour goes to Boris Volynov, the Jewish Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard the Soyuz 5 in January 1969. Volynov wasn’t free of Soviet anti-Semitism rampant at the time.
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 ...
