Cosmonaut Biography: Valeri Beloborodov (original) (raw)

Major, Russian Air Force, Reserve; graduated from Higher Air Force School, Chernigov, Ukraine, 1963; was selected on 07.05.1967 as cosmonaut (TsPK-4);OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 5/67 - 18.08.1969; was withdrawn from training of personal (political?) reasons; was then fighter pilot, aircraft commander in Afghanistan and Deputy Squadron Leader in the 8th Air Division; resigned from Air Force 1987 and worked then as head for carrier machines in a factory; since 1996 he was a pensioneer; died of a heart attack.