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Pavel R. POPOVICH
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Rank:                                                                                      Major General, Russian Air Force, Retired                            Cosmonaut Call sign:                                                                 ‘Berkut’ (‘Golden Eagle’)                                                     Cosmonaut Number:                                                                       4                                                                                              Born:                                                                                              5 October 1930 in Uzin, KievOblast, Ukraine                          Died:                                                                                                29 September 2009 (stroke) aged 78.                                      Family:                                                                                  Married twice. 2 children from first marriage

CAREER

1947-1951: Attended MagnitogorskIndustrialSchool and awarded certificate of Building Technology

1951-1954: Attended Kacha Higher MilitaryAviationSchool for Pilots

1954-1960: Served in various fighter squadrons initially in the Artic, then in Moscow and also served in the Far East Siberia

COSMONAUT ASSIGNMENTS

1960-1962: First to joined team (11.01.60); basic training; Vostok training; (25.01.61) appointed Top Six; (12.04.61) Capcom Vostok 1; (Aug 61) Capcom Vostok 2; (12-15.08.62) Pilot Vostok 4 in group flight with Vostok 3 (Nikolayev) 70 hrs 57min 

1963-1966: Instructor cosmonaut

1966-1969: Soyuz 7K-VI Military Soyuz training (18.01.67) reassigned lunar training group; lunar training; (Oct.69) Capcom Soyuz 6, 7 &8; Almaz (military Salyut) preliminary training

1970-1976 Almaz training; (1973) would have flown to failed Salyut (Almaz) 2; (03-19.07.74) Commander Soyuz 14-Salyut (Almaz) 3; returned to administrative duties; (1975) ASTP support; (1976) Controller Salyut (Almaz) 5; Capcom Soyuz 21

1977-1982: Deputy Director TsPK; (1977) Candidate of Technical Sciences; (26.01.82) Retired form cosmonaut team.

SPACEFLIGHT RECORD

Mission

Vehicle

Position

   Date:   (dd/mm/yy)

Duration (dd:hh:mm:ss)

Orbits

EVA’s

Vostok 4

 

Pilot

 12.08.62-15.08.61

02:22:57:00

48

0

Salyut 3

Soyuz 14

Commander

03.07.74-19.07.74

15:17:30:28

252

0

TOTAL FLIGHT TIME

18:16:27:28

300

0

MISSIONS FLOWN - 2

POST COSMONAUT ASSIGNMENTS

Jan 1982-Dec 1989: Deputy Chief TsPK; in charges of scientific research support and testing

1989-1990: Director Inzhenar Production Association

1990-1992: Director VNITS ‘AIUS- agroresursy’
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