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TsPK-4 astronaut group, 1967

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Requirement: engineers for planned Soyuz and Almaz flights. In 1968-1975 the VVS expected no fewer than 20 Almaz space stations, 50 military 7K-VI missions, 200 Soyuz training spacecraft flights and 400 Soyuz space transport flights.

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  • Porvatkin Russian engineer cosmonaut, 1967-1983. Graduated from Technical Air Force School, 1952. Graduated from Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy, Monino, 1960. Cosmonaut training May 1967 - 18 August 1967. Worked at NPO Energia.
  • Burdayev Russian engineer cosmonaut 1967-1983. Graduated from Air Force Engineering Academy, doctorate degree, 1987. Cosmonaut training from May 1967 - 18 August 1969. Worked as trainer at the Gagarin Center. Professor in space ballistics from 1994.
  • Alekseyev Russian engineer cosmonaut, 1967-1983.
  • Gaidukov Russian navigator cosmonaut, 1967-1978. Retired due to medical reasons (injured during parachute training). Worked as an engineer until 1988, when he retired from all work for medical reasons.
  • Sologub Russian navigator cosmonaut, 1967-1968.
  • Beloborodov Russian pilot cosmonaut, 1967-1969.
  • Isakov Russian navigator cosmonaut, 1967-1983.
  • Lyakhov Russian pilot cosmonaut 1967-1994.
  • Pisarev Russian pilot cosmonaut, 1967-1968.
  • Malyshev Russian pilot cosmonaut 1967-1988.
  • Kozelsky Russian pilot cosmonaut, 1967-1983. Graduated from Kachinsk, 1963; Monino, 1981. Later Deputy Mir Flight Director. Retired in 1992.
  • Kovalyonok Belarusian pilot cosmonaut 1967-1984.
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