Background
Georgiy Dobrovolsky was born in 1928.
Georgiy Dobrovolsky was born in 1928.
1935-1941 - studied (6 classes) in secondary school No. 99 in Odessa. 1946 - graduated after 10 classes from the special school of the Air Force of Odessa. 1950 - graduated from Chuguevskoye Vaul on the 2nd category in the specialty of "pilot-fighter".
1950-1952 - studied at the evening University of Marxism-Leninism. September 7, 1957 - July 7, 1961 - student of the VVA (now YA Gagarin), correspondence faculty in the specialty "Command and Staff Air Force."
From November 9, 1950 - a pilot of the 965th Fighter Regiment, Donbas District, then the division was redeployed to the territory of East Germany; from November 11, 1952 - senior pilot, since January 19, 1955 - deputy commander of the squadron for political affairs, since November 18, 1955 - commander of the link. October 1, 1956, his division was redeployed in the city of Valga of the Estonian SSR; from May 7, 1960 - commander of the link, since November 25, 1960 - deputy squadron commander, navigator, since July 29, 1961 - deputy commander of the squadron for political affairs, since October 12, 1961 - chief of the political department, deputy commander for political part of 43 separate aviation regiment of fighter-bombers of the Baltic Military District.
January 10, 1963 - by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force enlisted to the position of the listener-cosmonaut of the 1st squad of the Air Force CTC (2nd set);
From January 23, 1965 - cosmonaut of the 2nd detachment. August-December 1968 - commander of the active spacecraft "Soyuz" in the third crew. September 18, 1970 - April 1971 - commander of the fourth crew on the flight program at DOS-1 Salyut along with V. Sevastyanov and A. Voronov (until February 1971) and the third crew together with V. Volkov and V. Patsayev (February-April 1971); April 27 - May 27, 1971 - commander of the second crew at DOS-1 together with V. Volkov and V. Patsayev.
June 6-30, 1971 (together with V.Volkov and VI Patsaev) as the commander of the "Soyuz-11" spacecraft and DOS-1 "Salute". The crew died when returning to Earth due to depressurization of the descenting vehicle. Flight duration: 23 days. 18 hours 21 min. 43 seconds Callsign: "Amber-1".
