Education
Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
He was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978, and retired on October 17, 1994. He flew as a flight engineer on Soyuz TM-9. He worked at NPO Energia until 1994, and was then President of Lendint-Association until 2000.
He was awarded:
Hero of the Soviet Union
Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics
Order of Lenin
Medal "Foreign Merit in Space Exploration"
Order of Bernardo O"Higgins.