Igor Petrovich Wolk

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Igor Petrovich Wolk
Country: Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union
Organization: LII
selected on August 3, 1978
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: 17th July 1984
Landing: July 29, 1984
Time in space: 11d 19h 14min 36s
retired on 1996
Space flights
Igor Wolk (2008)
Igor Wolk, Thomas Reiter , Charlie Duke at the opening of the Space Hall of the Technik Museum Speyer on October 2nd, 2008

Igor Petrovich Wolk ( Russian И́горь Петро́вич Волк , scientific transliteration Igor 'Petrovič Volk ; born April 12, 1937 in Smijiw , Kharkov Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ; † January 3, 2017 in Plovdiv , Bulgaria ) was a pilot and Soviet cosmonaut . As commander, Wolk carried out the first atmospheric flights of the Buran prototype OK-GLI together with Rimantas Stankevičius , who acted as pilot .

Life

Igor Wolk graduated from the Kirovograd Military Aviation Pilot School in 1956 before visiting the Strela branch of the Moscow State Aviation Institute , which he successfully completed in 1969. During the testing of the MiG-105 glider, built as part of the military program Spiral , he acted as a test pilot on some flights from May 1976. After his selection as a cosmonaut, he began basic training for OKP cosmonauts in December 1978, which he was able to complete on July 30, 1980 after being taken over by the State Intermediate Commission, which wanted to use the pilot as a cosmonaut for the Buran program, in July 1980. In 1984 Igor Wolk was a research cosmonaut member of the fourth guest team of Salyut 7 ; Soyuz T-12 served as a feeder spaceship . As commander, Wolk and Stankevičius carried out the first flight on November 10, 1985 and the first automatic landing of the OK-GLI prototype of the Buran space shuttle, which was built for atmospheric and landing tests on December 10, 1986.

In 1996 he left the cosmonaut corps, but then continued to work as a test pilot for the civil aviation research institute of the Russian Ministry of Aviation Industry. After his 40th service anniversary, Wolk retired on February 26, 2002. Most recently he held the rank of colonel in the reserve of the Russian Air Force. Igor Wolk later worked as an inventor. His last project “Lark” involved a study of a car that should have flight characteristics.

Private

Wolk was married and had two children.

See also

literature

  • Peter Stache: spaceman from A to Z . Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin [East] 1988, ISBN 3-327-00527-3 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Wolk, Igor Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Волк, И́горь Петро́вич
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet cosmonaut, pilot
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Smiyiv , Kharkov Oblast , Ukrainian SSR
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2017