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Personal: Male. Born in Yangiyul, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Chernigov Higher Air Force School, 1963. Graduated from Gagarin Air Force Military Academy, Monino, 1976. Soviet Air Force. Soviet Air Force. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 3 - 1965. Inactive Entered space service: 23 October 1965. Left space service: 9 April 1969. Cosmonaut training November 1965 - December 1967. Involved in the Soviet Lunar Landing Program. Left cosmonaut group for medical reasons. After several military assignments (Belarus, Iraq, Afghanistan) he worked at operational staff of the Military Academy, St Petersburg. In 1994 he retired from active duty and became director of a construction company.
Voloshin Chronology 23 October 1965 - Cosmonaut selection. Although Kamanin desired 40 new cosmonaut-trainees, in the end only 17 were selected. They were:
28 October 1965 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 3 selected.. 2 September 1966 - Lunar flight cosmonauts assignments.. In the period 1966 to 1968 there were five simultaneous Soviet manned space projects (Soyuz 7K-OK orbital; Soyuz 7K-L1 circumlunar; Soyuz VI military; L3 manned lunar landing; Almaz space station). Cosmonaut assignments were in constant flux, resulting in many claims in later years that 'I was being trained for the first moon flight'. On 2 September 1966 a training group was formed for Soyuz 7K-OK orbital flights: ...more... 25 December 1967 - 1965 Air Force Group cosmonaut trainees are examined.. Of the 18, 13 scored a '5', four scored '4', and one '3'. Belousov, Grishchenko, Skvortsov, Sharafutdinov, and Voloshin - the low scorers - are all to be dismissed from the cosmonaut corps. 6 February 1968 - L1 commander assignments agreed.. The final medical report rejects Feoktistov's fitness to be a cosmonaut. Mishin accepts the findings of the report, but in classic manner ignores it and advocates Feoktistov be appointed as commander of the active spacecraft in the first Soyuz docking mission after return to flight. Kamanin is livid. Feoktistov has had years of training for EVA, but he has not had one day of training as a spacecraft commander, and now he wants him to command a mission due to launch in only two to three months! However agreement is finally reached on L1 commander assignments: Leonov, Bykovskiy, Popovich, Voloshin. Agreement is not reached on the second (civilian) crew member position for the flights. According to Mishin, the Soyuz and L1 flights planned from March 1 to the end of 1968 will require 16 to 18 crew members total. 28 September 1968 - Cosmonaut exams are held for Beregovoi, Shatalov, and Volynov.. Flight: Soyuz 3, Soyuz 4, Soyuz 5, Soyuz 7K-L1 mission 1, Soyuz 7K-L1 mission 2, Soyuz 7K-L1 mission 3. The results will establish the order in which they will fly as Soyuz commanders. A 25-person board, consisting of spacecraft designers and cosmonauts, conduct the oral examinations. Each cosmonaut must answer five mandatory essay questions and select two two-part questions. All three are certified for flight and have a complete mastery of the Soyuz systems. Mishin and Kamanin meet and decide on L1 crews: Leonov-Makarov (with Kuklin as back-up); Bykovsky-Rukavishnikov (Klimuk back-up); and Popovich-Sevastyanov (Voloshin back-up). But that evening Leonov has yet another automobile accident. He hit a bus with his Volga at kilometre 24 near Shchelkovsky. This was his second accident in four months. Kamanin decides to prohibit him from driving automobiles for six months. 1969 July - Soyuz 7K-L1 mission 3 (cancelled). Assignment: Proposed Backup Crew. Flight: Soyuz 7K-L1 mission 3. Planned third and final Russian circumlunar flight. Cancelled after the success of the American Apollo 8. Bibliography and Further Reading
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