Education
Saratov State Medical University.
Astronaut aviator physician colonel
Saratov State Medical University.
He was injured by the high acceleration of the abort and landing and was initially denied his spaceflight bonus pay, having to appeal directly to Leonid Brezhnev to receive lieutenant Brezhnev was at the time the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Lazarev held a degree in medicine and the rank of colonel in the Soviet Air Force. He remained in the space programme until failing a physical in 1981.
He never fully recovered from the injuries sustained on Soyuz 18a and died on the last day of 1990 at only 62.
He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, the title Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and the Order of Lenin.