Soviet/Russian test pilot and cosmonaut (1937–2017)
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Igor Volk
Volk in 2008
Born
Igor Petrovich Volk
(1937-04-12)12 April 1937
Zmiiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Died
3 January 2017(2017-01-03) (aged 79)
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Education
Kirovograd Military Aviation School of Pilots (1956) Fedotov Test Pilot School (1965) Moscow Aviation Institute (1969)
Occupation(s)
test pilot, cosmonaut
Years active
1956 – 2016
Employer
Gromov Flight Research Institute (1965-2002)
Notable work
MiG-21I testbed maiden flight OK-GLI program
Awards
Hero of the Soviet Union Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR
Space career
Cosmonaut
Time in space
11d 19h 14min
Selection
Air Force Group 5
Missions
Soyuz T-12
Signature
Igor Petrovich Volk (Russian: Игорь Петрович Волк, Ukrainian: Ігор Петрович Волк; 12 April 1937 – 3 January 2017) was a Russian test pilot and former Soviet cosmonaut in the Buran programme.
Igor Petrovich Volk (Russian: Игорь Петрович Волк, Ukrainian: Ігор Петрович Волк; 12 April 1937 – 3 January 2017) was a Russian test pilot and former...
Stankevičius IgorVolk 00d 00h 12m First flight of OK-GLI 2 3 January 1986 Rimantas Stankevičius IgorVolk 00d 00h 36m 3 27 May 1986 Rimantas Stankevičius Igor Volk...
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Shchukin, Rimantas Antanas Stankevičius, Igor Petrovich Volk, and Viktor Vasiliyevich Zabolotsky. A rule, set in place for cosmonauts...
test pilots for Buran – Gromov Flight Research Institute group (USSR) IgorVolk, Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko, Anatoly Levchenko, Nikolai Sadovnikov,...
Soyuz T-12 – 17–29 July 1984 Vladimir Dzhanibekov Svetlana Savitskaya IgorVolk Soyuz T-13 – 6 June – 26 September 1985 Vladimir Dzhanibekov Viktor Savinykh...
Aleksandr Aleksandrov (1983) Vladimir Titov (1983) Oleg Atkov (1984) IgorVolk (1984) Vladimir Solovyov (1984) Vladimir Vasyutin (1985) Aleksandr Volkov...
cosmonauts was a bottle of cognac, to the Salyut 7 in 1984. Cosmonaut IgorVolk said they would lose weight and hide alcohol in their spacesuits or hide...
Institute, Sukhoi and Mikoyan. In flight testing the Su-27 test pilot IgorVolk was the first to perform the maneuver in that aircraft in practice. Viktor...
sessions that date back over a year, with Jackie McKeown, Paul Borchers and IgorVolk, the recordings were made at Studio 355. All sessions were improvised...
Nevis 1937 – Dennis Banks, American author and activist (d. 2017) 1937 – IgorVolk, Ukrainian-Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2017) 1939 – Alan...
actor Pavel Vlasov, Russian test pilot, Hero of the Russian Federation IgorVolk, Soviet test pilot, cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Bonny Warner,...
together with Commander Vladimir Dzhanibekov and research cosmonaut IgorVolk. On July 25, 1984, Savitskaya became the first woman to spacewalk, conducting...
States Francis Scobee † United States James van Hoften United States 144 IgorVolk Soviet Union 17 July 1984 Soyuz T-12 145 Michael Coats United States...
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