Biography Zudova Vyacheslav Dmitrievich
Zudov Vyacheslav D. (1942). Astronaut. Colonel. Born in 1942 in the city of Gorky Bor area. When Slava was three months old, his father Dmitri V. went to the front, and his mother Anna moved in with relatives in a village near Alferevo shaky. Glory of six year old boy was taken to the city of Elektrostal, Moscow region.
In 1959, Vyacheslav graduated from high school and passed the exams in Balashov top flight school. In 1963, after the aviation school he served in the military transport aircraft and flown 1200 hours. In the same year was admitted to the ranks of the Communist Party. In 1965, Vyacheslav Zudov was enrolled in the cosmonaut and passed a full course of training for space flight.
October 14, 1976 was launched on Soyuz-23 ", piloted by a crew of commander, Colonel Zudova Vyacheslav Dmitrievich and flight engineer colonel engineer Valery Ilyich Rozhdestvensky. On orbit they worked flawlessly.
The courage and heroism during a night landing on the water of Lake Tengiz in Kazakhstan. Nearly 11 hours spent in the descent module of the astronauts in a terrible pitching and fog. Only in the morning coming day when the fog dispersed a bit, helicopter crew found the lander and pulled him to shore. Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on November 5, 1976 for their courage and heroism VD Zudov and VI Rozhdestvensky was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. They were pilot-cosmonauts of the Soviet Union. Since 1977, VD Zudov and VI Christmas – honorary citizens of the town of Bor.