Zudov Viacheslav

Astronaut Russia. Born January 8, 1942 in the town of Bor Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) region. Early years were in the village Alferova Arzamas district of Novgorod region. In 1949 the family moved to the city of Elektrostal (Moscow region), where he went to school. In 1960 he graduated from school and enrolled in Balashovskaya Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots. Since 1963 - Service in parts of the military transport aviation of the Soviet Army. In 1965 he enlisted in the detachment of Soviet cosmonauts (1965 Group of the Air Force? 3). It has been a full course of general space training and preparing to fly on spacecraft such as "Union".

In the 70 years, was trained to fly on a military space station type "Almaz". In July and August 1974 was a support crew when flying spacecraft "Soyuz-14 and Soyuz-15". From 14 to 16 October 1976, together with Valery Ilyich CHRISTMAS flew into space as commander of the Soyuz-23 ". The flight program included work on board the orbital station "Salyut-5", but because of the contingency of the convergence system and docking station could not be implemented.

Length of stay in space was 2 days 6 minutes 35 seconds. After the flight continued to work at the Cosmonaut Training Center named after Yury Gagarin, was the commander of the cosmonaut corps. In April 1980, and in March 1981 was part of the backup crews of the flights of spacecraft "Soyuz-35 and Soyuz T-4". In 1980 he graduated from the Air Force Academy named after Yury Gagarin, then the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee.

Hero of the Soviet Union (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on November 5, 1976). Awarded the Order of Lenin and medals. Awarded Honorable Mention name Komarov (FAI). Honorary Citizen of Bor, Gagarin, Kaluga (Russia), Arkalyk, Dzhezkazgan (Kazakhstan).