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Personal: Male. Born in Vozdvizhenka, Saratov, Russia. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Technical Air Force School, 1952. Graduated from Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy, Monino, 1960. Soviet Air Force. Soviet Air Force. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 4 - 1967. Inactive Entered space service: 12 April 1967. Left space service: 20 April 1983. Cosmonaut training May 1967 - 18 August 1967. Worked at NPO Energia.
Porvatkin Chronology 12 April 1967 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 4 selected.. 15 June 1971 - Soyuz Kontakt and DOS-2 crew assignments made.. Crews are formed for six Soyuz (Kontakt?) flights. Soyuz s/n 18 - Filipchenko and Grechko; Soyuz s/n 19 - Lazarev and Makarov; Soyuz s/n 20 - Vorobyov and Yazdovsky; Soyuz s/n 21 - Yakovlelv and Porvatkin; Soyuz s/n 22 - Kovalyonok and Isakov; Soyuz s/n 23 - Shcheglov and [illegible]. Five crews are training for Salyut flights: Crew 1, Leonov, Rukavishnikov, and Kolodin; Crew 2, Gubarev, Sevastyanov, and Voronov. TsKBEM engineer cosmonauts are to be selected will round out the last three crews, but VVS members will be: Crew 3, Klimuk, Artyukhin; Crew 4, Bykovskyy, Alekseyev; Crew 5, Gorbatko. Leonov and Gubarev will have their crews fully ready for Soyuz 12 by 30 June, for a launch date between 15-20 July. Leonov is asking to go to East Germany for two to three days in the first week of July. Kamanin is fully opposed to this - he is thinkng not of his upcoming flight, but the exhibition of his paintings at the Prezdensk Gallery! Bibliography:
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