Cosmonaut Biography: Valeri Yazdovsky (original) (raw)

Miner, then engineer; graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute, 1954; was involved in the development ofVostok,Voskhod andSoyuz spacecrafts; was selected as cosmonaut on 27.05.1968 (TsKBEM-1); he was assigned as flight engineer onSoyuz 13; but he and his crewmate Commander Lev Vorobiyov had personal differences (prime crew was then grounded); later engineer atNPOE; until his death retired.