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Credit - Yves Dejardin Collection
Vladimir Timofeyevich Isakov Russian Navigator Cosmonaut. Born 4 April 1940.

Personal: Male. Born in Zilaur, Bashkiria, Russia. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Air Force Higher School of Navigation,1963. Graduated from Gagarin Air Force Academy, 1975. Candidate of geographical sciences degree, 1985. Soviet Air Force. Soviet Air Force.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 4 - 1967. Inactive Entered space service: 7 May 1967. Left space service: 20 April 1983. Cosmonaut training May 1967 - 18 August 1969. 1969 to 1976 member of the Almaz training group.

Chief CapCom during many Mir flights.

Isakov Chronology

12 April 1967 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 4 selected..

15 June 1971 - Soyuz Kontakt and DOS-2 crew assignments made.. Crews are formed for six Soyuz (Kontakt?) flights. Soyuz s/n 18 - Filipchenko and Grechko; Soyuz s/n 19 - Lazarev and Makarov; Soyuz s/n 20 - Vorobyov and Yazdovsky; Soyuz s/n 21 - Yakovlelv and Porvatkin; Soyuz s/n 22 - Kovalyonok and Isakov; Soyuz s/n 23 - Shcheglov and [illegible]. Five crews are training for Salyut flights: Crew 1, Leonov, Rukavishnikov, and Kolodin; Crew 2, Gubarev, Sevastyanov, and Voronov. TsKBEM engineer cosmonauts are to be selected will round out the last three crews, but VVS members will be: Crew 3, Klimuk, Artyukhin; Crew 4, Bykovskyy, Alekseyev; Crew 5, Gorbatko. Leonov and Gubarev will have their crews fully ready for Soyuz 12 by 30 June, for a launch date between 15-20 July. Leonov is asking to go to East Germany for two to three days in the first week of July. Kamanin is fully opposed to this - he is thinkng not of his upcoming flight, but the exhibition of his paintings at the Prezdensk Gallery!
1972 - Soyuz sn 22 (cancelled). Soyuz s/n 22 would have been the active spacecraft of the second dual launch to test the Kontakt lunar orbit rendezvous system.
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