Background
Nikolay Rukavishnikov was born on September 18, 1932 in the city of Tomsk, the RSFSR (now Tomsk, Russian Federation).
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
Nikolay Rukavishnikov was born on September 18, 1932 in the city of Tomsk, the RSFSR (now Tomsk, Russian Federation).
Rukavishnikov studied at the Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute and after graduation worked for Sergey Korolev's design bureau. He was selected for cosmonaut training in 1967.
He was the participant of the world's first docking of spacecraft with an orbital station (Soyuz-10, Salyut, 1971), carried out the world's first emergency landing of a spacecraft using a backup engine (Soyuz-33, 1979).