Graduated from Military Engineering School in
Kaliningrad with an electronical engineering degree; Colonel, Soviet Air
Force; leader of shift in the satellite control facility of Soviet
Ministry of Defense; was selected as cosmonaut on 23.10.1965 (TsPK-3);
OKP: 11/65 - 12/67; was assigned as backup for Soyuz 23 and 24; later
Director of Moscow Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (Korolyov-Museum).
