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Soyuz and Salyut Cosmonauts

Soviet and Russian cosmonauts whose cited biography is centred on flights of the Soyuz spacecraft and stays aboard the Salyut orbital stations that the Soviet Union flew in the 1970s and 1980s. A person belongs here when the cited article names Soyuz or Salyut as their program. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.

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Wikipedia: Svetlana Savitskaya
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Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian: Светла́на Евге́ньевна Сави́цкая; born 8 August 1948) is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space.
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Vladislav Volkov - Wikipedia
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Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov (Russian: Владислав Николаевич Волков; 23 November 1935-30 June 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 missions.
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Georgy Dobrovolsky - Wikipedia
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Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky (Russian: Георгий Тимофеевич Добровольский; 1 June 1928-30 June 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft.
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Viktor Patsayev - Wikipedia
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Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev (Russian: Виктор Иванович Пацаев; 19 June 1933-30 June 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and was part of the third space crew to die during a space flight.
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Vladimir Dzhanibekov - Wikipedia
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Notably he was part of the Salyut-7 rescue mission and also discovered the Dzhanibekov Effect on that same mission, a logical consequence of the Tennis racket theorem.
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Valery Kubasov - Wikipedia
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Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov (Russian: Вале́рий Никола́евич Куба́сов; 7 January 1935-19 February 2014) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo-Soyuz mission), and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme.
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Boris Volynov - Wikipedia
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Boris Valentinovich Volynov (Russian: Борис Валентинович Волынов; born 18 December 1934) is a Russian former cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soviet Union's Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21.
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Vladimir Shatalov - Wikipedia
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov (Russian: Владимир Александрович Шаталов; 8 December 1927-15 June 2021) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 4 (1969), Soyuz 8 (1969), and Soyuz 10 (1971).
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Vitaly Sevastyanov - Wikipedia
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Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov (Russian: Вита́лий Ива́нович Севастья́нов; 8 July 1935-5 April 2010) was a Soviet cosmonaut and an engineer who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions.
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Sergey Prokopyev (cosmonaut) (Wikipedia)
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On June 6, 2018, he launched on his first flight into space aboard Soyuz MS-09 and spent 197 days in space as a flight engineer on Expedition 56/57.
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Wikipedia: Yelena Kondakova
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Her first trip into space was on Soyuz TM-20 on 4 October 1994.
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Wikipedia: Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya
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She had been due to fly on Soyuz TM-32, but was cut in order to accommodate American space tourist Dennis Tito.
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Georgy Grechko
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He flew to space on three missions, each bound for rendezvous with a different Salyut space station.
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Aleksandr Viktorenko
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He was commander of Soyuz TM-3, Soyuz TM-8, Soyuz TM-14, and Soyuz TM-20.
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Georgy Beregovoy
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Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy (Russian: Георгий Тимофеевич Береговой, Ukrainian: Георгій Тимофійович Береговий, romanized: Heorhiy Tymofiyovych Berehovyi; 15 April 1921-30 June 1995) was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968.
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Aleksei Yeliseyev (Wikipedia)
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Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev (Russian: Алексей Станиславович Елисеев; born 13 July 1934) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10.
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Pyotr Klimuk - Wikipedia
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This was followed by a mission to the Salyut 4 space station on Soyuz 18 in 1975.
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Leonid Kizim - Wikipedia
Has Member: Leonid Kizim, Article text: program or flight
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Kizim flew as Commander on Soyuz T-3, Soyuz T-10 and Soyuz T-15, and also served as backup commander for Soyuz T-2.
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Vladimir Kovalyonok - Wikipedia
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All his missions were to the Salyut 6 space station
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