Titov

Personal data:

Birthdate:  11 Sep 1935 Birthplace:  Verkhneye Zhilino / Altai Kraj / Russian SFSR Marital status:  married with Tamara W. Tsherkas Children:  two: Tatyana (1963) & Galina (1965) Selection date:  07 March 1960 Selection group:  TsPK-1 Job:  Pilot Status:  Ret. 17 June 1970 Date of death:  20 Sep 2000 (Cardiac arrest) Place of death:  Moscow / Moscow (Gorod)

Spaceflights:

Backup assignments No. Mission Job 1  Vostok 1  PPLT

Handsigned spacesuit portrait

Additional information

• Graduated from Higher Air Force School; Colonel General and pilot, Soviet Air Force; was selected as cosmonaut on 07.03.1960 (TsPK-1); OKP: 3/60 - 18.01.1961; was assigned as backup for Yuri Gagarin (Vostok 1); then he graduated from Air Force Engineering Academy and from the Kharkov Test Pilot School; retired from active cosmonaut duty on 17.06.1970; then he graduated in military sciences; Director, Startservice, Ministry of Defense; since October 1991 retired; later Narodni Deputat, The State′s Duma of the Russian Federation.
• died of a carbon monoxide poisening.