Pavel Ivanovich Belyaev (6/26/1925 – 10/01/1970), pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, Colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union (23/3/1965). Member of the CPSU from 1949. Born in a family doctor. In 1942, after graduating from high school he entered the factory. In 1943 he voluntarily joined the Soviet Army. It was adopted in Yeisk Aviation School Marine fighter pilots who graduated in 1945. He participated in the war with Japan.
Yuri V. Lonchakov (04.03.1965). Test cosmonaut of the Russian State Scientific-Research Test Cosmonaut Training Center (RGNIITSPK) them. Yuri Gagarin Air Force Lt. Col. (in 2002) was born March 4, 1965 in the town of Balkhash Dzhezkazgan of the Kazakh SSR.
He graduated from Orenburg Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots them. Polbin in 1986, Air Force Engineering Academy. Zhukovsky in "pilot-engineer-researcher" in 1998, he served in the units of the Air Force as assistant to the commander, the Tu-16 squadron commander, the Tu-16, a senior pilot, aviation unit commander and in 1998 he was appointed as a candidate for the astronauts test-cosmonaut RGNIITSPK them. Gagarin.
1998 – 1999 – he attended basic space training qualification as a test cosmonaut.
2000 – 2002. trained on the various programs of flights to the International Space Station (ISS), the first space flight as a professional from 19 April to 1 May 2001 in the American orbit shuttle Endeavour and the ISS, the second space flight on Oct. 30 – Nov. 10 2002 as a flight engineer visiting the ISS along with Russian cosmonaut S. Zalyotin and European Space Agency astronaut Belgian Frank De Winne (start and return to the ISS on the Russian spacecraft, a series of Soyuz-TM).
He has logged on planes more than 1400 hours, a military pilot, Class 1, Class 3 astronaut, awarded the three Russian medals and medal NASA "Space Flight" (2001), married with a son; uvdecheniya: Alpine skiing, scuba diving , mountaineering, playing sports, photography.
Dobrovolsky, Georgy T. (06/01/1928 – 30/06/1971), pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, Lieutenant Colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union (30/6/1971, posthumously). A member of the CPSU from 1954.
After graduating from Odessa Air Force special schools (1946) and Chuguevsky Military Aviation School (1950) served as fighter pilot. In 1961 the job of flight operations graduated from Red Banner Air Force Academy.
Nikolayev Andriyan (05/09/1929), was born in the village Shorshely Mariinsko Posad district of the Chuvash ASSR (now Republic of Chuvashia). In 1947 he graduated Mariinsko Posad Forestry College and was assigned to the work of a master trust "Yuzhkarelles on logging in Karelia. In Karelia, worked till 1950, when he was drafted into the Soviet Army. Initially engaged in a course of air rifle, and in August 1951 adopted the Frunze Military Aviation School.
Gorbatko Viktor (03/12/1934), Soviet cosmonaut, Colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union (10/22/1969). Member of the CPSU in 1959. In 1952 he entered the military aviation school initial training and in 1953 – in Bataisk military aviation school. Since 1956, upon graduation, served in the aviation wing of the Soviet Army. Since 1960, an astronaut. In 1968 he graduated from the Air Force Academy. Zhukovsky. 12-17 October 1969 flew into space on a satellite-spacecraft "Soyuz-7" as an engineer and researcher with the AV Filipchenko and VN Volkov, performed scientific and technological experiments and research in the near-Earth space.
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.
Khrunov Yevgeny (10.09.1933 – 19.05.2000) was born September 10, 1933 in the village ponds Volovské district, Tula region in a large peasant family. Besides him, Vasily Zhukovsky and Agrafena Nikolaevna Khrunov had two daughters and five sons. Childhood Eugene, like all children of that time, were in the war years. More than once had occasion to witness his brutal air battles between Soviet and German pilots that unfolded in the skies above the village.
According to his relatives, it was then that he was born, and the desire to become a pilot. Over the years, that desire is not only not disappeared, but strengthened. Were not easy and the postwar years, especially after his father died. Mother alone had to raise the large family. After seven years of schooling, Eugene entered the agricultural college in the city of Kashira (Tula Region), who graduated in 1952. In the same year he joined the Soviet army and sent to study in a military aviation school. The following year he applied and was accepted into Bataisk Military Aviation School.