Education
Gagarin Air Force Academy.
Gagarin Air Force Academy.
Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev and Vladislav Volkov flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and had the unfortunate distinction to be the second Soviet crew to die during a space flight (after Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov in Soyuz 1). After a normal re-entry, the capsule was opened and the crew was found dead. lieutenant was discovered that a valve had opened just prior to leaving orbit that had allowed the capsule"s atmosphere to vent away into space, suffocating the crew.
Dobrovolsky"s ashes were placed in an urn in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis on the Red Square in Moscow.