Beloborodov Credit - Yves Dejardin Collection

Personal: Male. Born in Oloviyanna, Chita, Russia. Heart attack. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Higher Air Force School, Chernigov, Ukraine, 1963 Soviet Air Force. Soviet Air Force.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 4 - 1967. Deceased Entered space service: 7 May 1967. Left space service: 29 August 1969. Cosmonaut training May 1967 - 18 August 1969. Withdrawn from training of personal or political reasons.

Returned to service as a fighter pilot. Was an aircraft commander in Afghanistan and a Deputy Squadron Leader in the 8th Air Division. Retired from the Air Force as a Major in 1987 and worked thereafter in a factory as supervisor for transport. Retired in 1996.

12 April 1967 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 4 selected..