In 1963 it was decided to fly the Voskhod multi-seat spacecraft. There followed a chaotic struggle between the commander of the Soviet cosmonaut team, Kamanin, and leaders of other military and civilian scientific and engineering organisations over who would fly on these missions. The training group for the first Voskhod 3-seat mission included:

	Benderov	Vladimir Nikolaevich Benderov. Russian Pilot Cosmonaut. Born 4 August 1924. Died 3 June 1973.
	Feoktistov	Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov. Russian Engineer Cosmonaut. Born 7 February 1926. First spacecraft designer in space.
	Katys	Georgiy Petrovich Katys. Russian Engineer Cosmonaut. Born 31 August 1926.
	Lazarev	Vasili Grigoryevich Lazarev. Russian Physician Cosmonaut. Born 23 February 1928. Died 31 December 1990. Survived first manned spaceflight abort during launch.
	Polyakov Boris	Boris Ivanovich Polyakov. Russian Physician Cosmonaut. Born 10 May 1938.
	Sorokin	Dr Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin. Russian Physician Cosmonaut. Born 30 March 1931. Died 23 January 1976.
	Yegorov	Dr Boris Borisovich Yegorov. Russian Physician Cosmonaut. Born 26 November 1937. Died 12 September 1994. First physician in space.