Vyacheslav Dmitrievich Sudov

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Vyacheslav Dmitrievich Sudov
Country: USSR
selected on October 23, 1965
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: October 14, 1976
Landing: October 16, 1976
Time in space: 2d 0h 6min 35s
retired on May 14, 1987
Space flights

Vyacheslav Zudov ( Russian Вячеслав Дмитриевич Зудов ., Scientific transliteration Vjačeslav Dmitrievič Zudov * 8. January 1942 in Bor , Gorky Oblast , Russian SFSR ) is a pilot and former Soviet cosmonaut .

After Vyacheslav Sudow graduated from the Higher Military Aviation Pilot School in Balashov in 1963 , he was selected as a cosmonaut by the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center on October 23, 1965. The pilot and parachutist completed basic training for OKP cosmonauts from November 1965 to December 1967.

Sudow flew into space in 1976 as the commander of Soyuz 23 . There he approached the Salyut 5 space station , but without coupling. It was scheduled for another flight to repeat the Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 maneuvers . However, this flight has been canceled.

Sudow was to fly as a commander together with Boris Andrejew with Soyuz T-4 sixth and last regular team (EO-6) to station Salyut 6 in March 1981 . Due to the condition of the space station, however, the more experienced cosmonaut Vladimir Kowaljonok was preferred to him as commander, so that Sudow and Andreyev only formed the reserve crew.

In 1979 Vyacheslav Sudov graduated from the Air Force Military Academy "JA Gagarin" . After he resigned from the cosmonaut corps on May 14, 1987, Sudow first worked in commercial research, later in the customs administration, where he remained until his retirement. The parachutist and pilot now holds the rank of colonel in the reserve of the Russian Air Force.

For his achievements, Sudow received the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1976 . He is married and has two children.

literature

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

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personal data
SURNAME Sudow, Vyacheslav Dmitrievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Зудов, Вячеслав Дмитриевич (Russian); Zudov, Vjačeslav Dmitrievič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet cosmonaut, engineer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bor , Gorky Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union