Alexander Alexandrowitsch Volkov (cosmonaut)
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| Country: | USSR , Russia |
| Organization: | WWS |
| selected on | December 1, 1978 |
| Calls: | 3 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
17th September 1985 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
March 25, 1992 |
| Time in space: | 391 d 11 h 52 min |
| EVA inserts: | 2 |
| EVA total duration: | 10 h 22 min |
| retired on | August 1998 |
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Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov ( Russian Александр Александрович Волков , Ukrainian Олександр Олександрович Волков Oleksandr Volkov * 27 May 1948 in Gorlovka , Donetsk Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Soviet and (after the dissolution of the Soviet Union) Russian cosmonaut , active from 1976 to 1998.
Volkov attended the Higher Military Aviation School "Sergei Gretsevets" in Kharkov , which he graduated in 1970. He then stayed at the school and worked as a trainer until he switched to the Soviet cosmonaut squad.
Alexander Volkov was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. He received his basic training as a cosmonaut from August 1976 to January 1979. He was the head of cosmonaut training between 1990 and 1998.
The Soyuz TM-13 Mission
Volkov was stationed on the Mir during the dissolution of the Soviet Union . It started on October 2, 1991 and saw the dissolution of the USSR in space .
For political reasons, instead of the planned long-term replacement from Russia, the Kazakh Toktar Aubakirow was sent to the Mir in October 1991 , a cosmonaut without long-term experience who returned to Earth after eight days. The cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev , who is already living on the Mir station, had to extend his stay by half a year. The Russians were responding to a demand from the soon-to-be-independent Republic of Kazakhstan , on whose territory the Baikonur Cosmodrome is located.
As Krikalev started as a Soviet citizen, Volkov returned to earth after 5 months on March 25, 1992 as a Russian or (by birth) Ukrainian.
Private
Volkov is married and has two sons. One of them, Sergei Volkov , was also selected as a cosmonaut in 1997.
Web links
- Short biography on spacefacts.de
- Alexander Alexandrowitsch Wolkow in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- Волков Александр Александрович , warheroes.ru (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Volkov, Alexander Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Во́лков, Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович (Russian); Волков, Олександр Олександрович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian and Soviet cosmonaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gorlowka , Donetsk Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union |