Vladislav Volkov

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Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov (

Volkov graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1959.^[3] As an aviation engineer at Korolyov Design Bureau, he was involved in the development of the Vostok and Voskhod spacecraft prior to his selection as a cosmonaut. He flew aboard Soyuz 7 in 1969.

Volkov, on his second space mission in 1971, was assigned to Soyuz 11 along with

Vladislav Volkov was decorated twice as the Hero of the Soviet Union (first on 22 October 1969 and posthumously on 30 June 1971). He was also awarded the two Orders of Lenin and the title of Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR.^[1] His ashes were interred in the Kremlin Wall on Red Square in Moscow.^[6]

The lunar crater Volkov and the minor planet 1790 Volkov are named in his honor. A street in Moscow is named after him.

The "Yeniseyles" Soviet research/survey ship was renamed "Kosmonavt Vladislav Volkov" in his honor in 1974.^[7]

A tomato variety from Ukraine was named Cosmonaut Volkov in his memory by his friend the space scientist and gardener Mikhailovich Maslov.^[8]

Volkov is an

1973 to 2015, the Pilotcosmonaut-Volkov-Award (later Volkov-Cup)[9][9] was given for the best sports acrobatics since 2016 called Zolotov-Cup; while alive, Volkov becamefirst chairman of the Soviet Society of Sportsacrobatics in 1970.[9]

In Russia in Space, Brian Harvey described a fleet of communication vessels or "comships", used to track Soviet space missions. The fleet included a ship known as the Vladislav Volkov, built during the 1970s. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, several of the fleet's ships were either sold to other governments, or left idle in harbor.^[10]

An account of Volkov's life and space career appears in the 2003 book Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon by Colin Burgess.

In popular culture

In the 1999 film Virus, an alien intelligence infects the research vessel "Akademic Vladislav Volkov" 's computer system via a space transmission. The USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg (T-AGM-10) was redecorated for the film.

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