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Dr Vladimir Aleksandrovich Degtyarov Russian Physician Cosmonaut. Born 4 April 1932.

Personal: Male. Born in Voronezh, Voronezh, Russia. MD Soviet Air Force Medical Doctor. MD, 1984. Soviet Air Force Soviet Air Force Physician.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 3 - 1965. Inactive Entered space service: 28 October 1965. Left space service: 17 January 1966. Cosmonaut training from November 1965 - 17 January 1966.

Continued service in the medical branch of the Air Force. From 1985 professor. 1989 chief of his own private research institute. From 1989 Director Water, Ecology, Life Comp. and since 1995 President of the Russian group of this Joint Venture Corporati

Degtyarov Chronology

23 October 1965 - Cosmonaut selection. Although Kamanin desired 40 new cosmonaut-trainees, in the end only 17 were selected. They were:

  • Pilots: Voloshin, Sharafutdinov, Shcheglov, Kramarenko, Yakovlev, Petrushenko,Skvortsov, Fyodorov,Klimuk, Sarafanov, Zudov, Kizim
  • Engineers: Kolesnikov,Stepanov Eduard, Lisun, Rozhdestvensky, Khludeyev, Glazkov, Preobrazhensky
  • Navigator: Grishchenko
  • Physician: Degtyarov
28 October 1965 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 3 selected..
1 December 1965 - Degtyarov. Kamanin is not pleased with candidate Degtyarov, a 32-year old physician.
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