Biography of Vladimir V. Aksenov
Aksenov, Vladimir (01/02/1935). Born February 1, 1935 in the village Giblitsy Kasimov district of Ryazan region. Early years came in during the Great Patriotic War in 1941 – 1945. He led them from their elderly parents mother: Ivana Prokofievich and Vera Feodorovna Aksenov – Teachers of Russian Language and Literature. They instilled Volodya love literature, music. After the war he lived in the village Giblitsy, where his mother worked as a bookkeeper rural cooperatives.
In 1949 he graduated in the village of seven classes and enrolled in an industrial college in Kasimov. But soon the mother died and the boy took to his sister, mother, Zinaida Ivanovna Semakin, worked as a teacher in the suburban city of Kaliningrad (now Korolev).
In 1953 he graduated from Mytishinskiy Engineering College and Komsomol went to school Kremenchug initial training of pilots. In 1955 he graduated from school and became a cadet Chuguevsky Military Aviation School, but the following year proved to be discharged. In 1957, he went to work in OKB-1 to Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. Directly involved in the creation of space vehicles, beginning with the first artificial Earth satellite.
In 1963, he graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Polytechnic Institute, defended the diploma in the OKB-1. In 1964 he was one of the first employees was established in OKB-1 on the initiative of SP Korolev flight test department, who led the famous test pilot Sergey Anokhin. In the section headed Aksenov flight testing laboratory established at the TU-104. The airplane-simulator he made 250 flights, 1200 happened to be in a temporary weightlessness.
In 1973 he enlisted in the Soviet cosmonaut (1973 group of civilian experts № 9). Passed a full course of cosmonaut training and flight training on ships such as "Union". The first space flight from 15 to 23 September 1976 together with Valery Fedorovich Bykovskii as a flight engineer of Soyuz-22 ". Length of stay in space was 7 days 21 hours 52 minutes 17 seconds. His second space flight, from 5 to 9 June 1980, together with Yuri Vasilyevich Malyshev in as a flight engineer of Soyuz T-2. During the flight tests were conducted on-board equipment of a new transport spacecraft. Was carried out docking with the orbital complex "Salyut-6" – "Soyuz-36" on board which worked Leonid Popov and Valery V. RYUMIN. Length of stay in space was 3 days 22 hours 19 minutes 30 seconds. Over 2 flights into space blew 11 days 20 hours 11 minutes 47 seconds. After the second flight continued to work in the Cosmonaut Training Center Yuri Gagarin, took part in the training of crews for new space missions. In 1988 he left the cosmonaut team and became director of the State Research Center for the Study of Natural Resources. Since 1990 – general director of "Planet".
In 1983 – 1992 years was deputy chairman of the Soviet Peace Fund. PhD (1981). Hero of the Soviet Union (Decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on 28 September 1976 and June 16, 1980). He was awarded two Orders of Lenin and medals. He was awarded a gold medal "For merits in development of science and humankind" (Czechoslovakia). Honorary citizen of Ryazan, Gagarin, Kasimov (Russia).