Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev

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Vasily Lazarev
Country: USSR
selected on May 26, 1964
Calls: 2 (1 suborbital)
Start of the
first space flight:
September 27, 1973
Landing of the
last space flight:
29th September 1973
Time in space: 1d 23h 15min 32s
retired on November 27, 1985
Space flights
Postage stamp from the Soyuz 12 mission with Lasarev (left) and Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (right)

Vasily Grigoryevich Lasarew ( Russian Василий Григорьевич Лазарев ; born February 23, 1928 in Poroschino , Altai region , Russian SFSR ; † December 31, 1990 in Moscow , Russian SFSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut .

After Vasily Lazarev graduated from the Air Force College, the Soviet Air Force member began studying medicine, which he completed in 1951 with a doctorate in medicine. After he was selected on May 26, 1964 for the Wozhod program , but was not used in favor of Boris Yegorov , Lazarev was taken over by the Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training center when the cosmonaut corps was expanded again. He began basic training for OKP cosmonauts on January 17, 1966, which he completed in December 1967. Lazarev flew into space in 1973 as the commander of Soyuz 12 . In 1975 he was in command of Soyuz 18-1 , the launch of which had to be aborted after the last stage failed. The spacecraft Soyuz 18-1 did not enter orbit , but completed the unplanned longest manned suborbital flight to date over a distance of 1,574 kilometers with a duration of 21 minutes. Vasily Lazarev was a substitute for Soyuz T-3 in 1980 .

After Lazarev left the cosmonaut corps on November 27, 1985, he worked as a civilian employee for the "Organization Snanije" in the Yuri-Gagarin cosmonaut training center. The former cosmonaut was promoted to colonel in the Soviet Air Force Reserve. Lazarev died on December 31, 1990 in Moscow as a result of alcohol poisoning .

Lazarev was married and has one child.

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