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Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Enem, Adygeya, Russia. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Air Force Academy. Colonel Soviet Air Force Soviet Air Force. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 5 - 1970. Inactive Entered space service: 27 April 1970. Left space service: 31 October 1992. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 211.38 days. Number of EVAs: 1.00. Total EVA Time: 0.11 days. Call sign: Elbrusy (Elbrus - tallest mountain in Europe). Retired for medical reasons (due to injuries he received as the victim in an armed robbery). From 1992 to 1999 Deputy President Russian Space Federation.
Berezovoi Spaceflight Log
Berezovoi Chronology 24 March 1970 - Only nine of 16 cosmonaut-finalists cleared by the KGB and Communist Party. Kamanin reports that only nine of 16 cosmonaut-candidates that completed the arduous selection process have been cleared by the KGB and Communist Party for actual acceptance for cosmonaut training. He feels this makes the whole time-consuming selection process a waste of time. The VVS is reluctant to submit officers as cosmonaut candidates, fearing that if they fail the vestibular table tests they will not only be rejected as cosmonauts, but be unable to return to flight duty with the Air Force. The result is a final selection of dullards, who are not intellectual, or literary, or sports enthusiasts, who are poor readers and not really interested in spaceflight or cosmonautics. The final decree has been issued reorganising TsUKOS as GUKOS. 27 April 1970 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 5 selected.. 30 April 1970 - Pressure on cosmonauts for more public relations tasks.. Kamanin notes that the 27 April decree has selected only nine new cosmonauts from 300 pilot and 100 engineer candidates. He believes at least 30 should have been selected. Currently there are only 18 active cosmonauts, but Kamanin feels he needs at least 100, just to cover all the public relations appearance demands made on them. 6 July 1976 - Soyuz 21. Soyuz 21 with Volynov and Zholobov aboard hard-docked with the station on 6 July 1976 after failure of the Igla system at the last stage of rendezvous. Towards the end of the two month mission an early return to earth was requested due to the poor condition of flight engineer Zholobov (who was suffering from space sickness and psychological problems). 14 October 1976 - Soyuz 23. The Soyuz 23 ferry spacecraft suffered a docking system failure. Sensors indicated an incorrect lateral velocity, causing unnecessary firing of the thrusters during rendezvous. The automatic system was turned off, but no fuel remained for a manual docking by the crew. 7 February 1977 - Soyuz 24. Soyuz 24 docked with Salyut 5 and brought repair equipment and equipment for a change of cabin atmosphere. This special apparatus was designed to allow the entire station to be vented through the EVA airlock. Because of this the planned EVA was cancelled. However analysis after arrival showed no toxins in the air. The crew changed the cabin air anyway, then returned to earth. The mission, although a short 18 days, was characterised as a busy and successful mission, accomplishing nearly as much as the earlier Soyuz 21's 50 day mission. 1977 July - Soyuz 25A (cancelled). A Soyuz 25 mission to the Salyut 5 space station with the crew of Berzovoi and Lisun was to have followed Soyuz 24. However during the four months it took to prepare the Soyuz, Salyut 5 consumed higher than expected fuel in maintaining the station's orientation. The flight was cancelled and the spacecraft allocated for Soyuz 25 flew as Soyuz 30 to Glushko's civilian Salyut station. 1981 Beginning of - TKS-1 (cancelled). Planned first test manned flight of the TKS large ferry craft. Would have docked with the Almaz OPS 4 military space station. Flight cancelled with the rest of the Almaz program in 1981. The spacecraft was instead flown unmanned to Salyut 6 as Cosmos 1267. 13 May 1982 - Soyuz T-5. Carried Anatoli Berezovoi, Valentin Lebedev to Salyut 7 to conduct scientific research and experiments; returned crew of Soyuz T-7 to Earth. 30 July 1982 - EVA Salyut 7 EO-1-1. Retrieved and installed material samples. Tested equipment. Late 1982 - Salyut 7/TKS-2 (cancelled). Following the cancellation of the Almaz military station it was still planned that two of the TKS ferries would be flown manned to Salyut stations. In September/October 1979 three crews were formed. In December 1981 Ustinov killed Chelomei's plans for manned TKS flights. The TKS training group was dissolved and TKS-2 flew unmanned to Salyut 7 as Cosmos 1443. 10 December 1982 - Landing of Soyuz T-7. Soyuz T-7 landed at 19:03 GMT, 118 km E of Dzhezkazgan, with the crew of Berezovoi and Lebedev aboard. During 1983 - Salyut 7/TKS-3 (cancelled). Planned second manned flight of TKS ferry to the Salyut 7 space station. The crews were assigned in September/October 1979. But in December 1981 Ustinov killed Chelomei's plans for manned TKS flights. The TKS training group was dissolved and TKS-3 flew unmanned to Salyut 7 as Cosmos 1686. 3 April 1984 - Soyuz T-11. Manned three crew. Docked with Salyut 7.Transported a Soviet-Indian international crew comprising ship's commander Y V Malyshev, flight engineer G M Strekalov (USSR) and cosmonaut-researcher R Sharma (India) to the SALYUT-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments. 1986 Early - Soyuz T-15A (cancelled). Final expedition to Salyut 7 station was cancelled when control was lost. 29 August 1988 - Soyuz TM-6. Transported to the Mir orbital station a Soviet-Afghan crew comprising the cosmonauts V A Lyakhov, V V Polyakov and A A Momand (Afghanistan) to conduct joint research and experiments with the cosmonauts V G Titov and M K Manarov. Returned Manarov, Titov (Soyuz TM-4), Chretien (Soyuz TM-7) to Earth. Initial orbit 195 X 228 km at 51. 57 deg. Maneuvered to a 235 x 259 km orbit, then docked with Mir at 05:41 GMT on 31 August at its 339 x 366 km orbit. Moved from aft to forward port 8 Sept 88. Bibliography:
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