Illyin Credit - Yves Dejardin Collection

Personal: Male. Born in Kuznetsk, Penza Oblast, Russia. MD Civilian Medical Doctor. Educated S. M. Kirov Military Medical Institute. Doctorate of medical sciences degree, 1984. Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1985. Civilian Physician.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Voskhod Physician Group - 1965. Inactive Entered space service: September 1965. Left space service: 1966. Trained for cancelled Voskhod long duration mission. Involved in several experiments on various Soyuz missions.

From 1967 - 1968, member of a Soviet Antarctic Expedition. Later Deputy Director of IMBP, Moscow.

1 June 1965 - Voskhod Physician Cosmonaut Training Group selected.. The group was selected to provide trainees for planned Voskhod long-duration biomedical spaceflights to be made with a physician aboard.