Background
Pavel Romanovich Popovich was born in Uzin, Belotserkovsky district, Kiev region, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine).
Pavel Romanovich Popovich was born in Uzin, Belotserkovsky district, Kiev region, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine).
December 25, 1954 - June 16, 1957 - the pilot of the 265 IAP 336IAD22 VA. From June 19, 1957 - adjutant squadron - senior pilot 113 IAD 64 IAK 22 VA of the Northern VO; since February 27, 1958 - senior pilot 722 IAP 26 IAD 22 VA. Since May 31, 1958 - senior pilot, since January 31, 1959 - adjutant squadron - senior pilot, since October 10, 1959 - senior pilot 234 IAP 9 IAD of Moscow Air Defense, st. Cuban.
March 7, 1960 – by decision of commander-in-chief of the Air Force enlisted as a listener-cosmonaut in the Air Force CTC(Cosmonaut Training Center), was the senior group of listeners (1st enrollment).
January 25, 1961 - after the completion of the GST(General Space Training) appointed to the position of cosmonaut with assignment of qualification "cosmonaut of the Air Force".
From January 16, 1963 - cosmonaut of the cosmonaut corps.
Participant of the world's first group flight of two manned spacecraft «Vostok-3" and "Vostok-4", 1962. He was a participant in the world's first manned flight, conducted entirely in the interests of the Ministry of Defense (Soyuz-14, 1974).
1st flight - August 12-15, 1962 as a pilot of the spacecraft "Vostok-4" under the group flight program with spacecraft "Vostok-3" (pilot - A. Nikolaev). Flight duration: 2 days. 22 hours. 57 minutes Callsign: "Berkut".
2nd flight - July 3-19, 1974 as commander of the Soyuz-14 spacecraft and Salyut-3 station together with Yu. Artyukhin. Flight duration: 15 days. 17 hours 30 min. 28 seconds Callsign: "Berkut-1".
Honourable citizen of Kaluga, Poltava, Magnitogorsk, Guryev, Zaporozhye, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Kovrov, Belaya Tserkov (Russia, Ukraine).
In village Uzyn, Uzynsk district, Kiev region (Ukraine), a bronze bust was installed.The name of Pavel Popovich was given to a mountain range in Antarctica and a small planet (1991).
