Education
Gagarin Air Force Academy. Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia.
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Uladzimir Kovalyonok
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Career
He entered the Soviet space programme on July 5, 1967 and was commander of three missions. He retired from the cosmonaut team on June 23, 1984. From 1990 to 1992 he was a Director of the 30th Central Scientific Research Institute, Ministry of Defence (Russia).
Soyuz 25 Soyuz 29 Soyuz T-4 Hero of the Soviet Union, twice (2 November 1978 and 26 May 1981).
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Hero of the Soviet Union, twice (2 November 1978 and 26 May 1981) Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd class (16 May 1996) Order of Military Merit (2000) Three Orders of Lenin (15 November 1977, 2 November 1978 and 26 May 1981) Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 3rd class (12 August 1991) Medal "Foreign Merit in Space Exploration" (12 April 2011) - for great achievements in the field of research, development and use of outer space, many years of diligent work, public activities Hero of the German Democratic Republic (1978) Order of Karl Marx (East Germany, 1978) Hero of the Minnesota Public Radio (Mongolia, 1981) Order of Sukhbaatar (Mongolia, 1981) Cross of Grunwald, 3rd class (Poland, 1978) Order for Service to the Homeland, 2nd class (Belarus, 2002).
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Political Party
A Just Russia
Education
Awards
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Order of Lenin; Hero of the Soviet Union; Order of Karl Marx; Order For Services to the Fatherland 3rd degree; Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class; Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR; Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"; Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" Order of Military Merit; Hero of the Soviet Union; Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR; Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"; Order of Merit for the Fatherland; Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSROrder of Lenin; Hero of the Soviet Union; Order of Karl Marx; Order For Services to the Fatherland 3rd degree; Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class; Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR; Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"; Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" Order of Military Merit; Hero of the Soviet Union; Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR; Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"; Order of Merit for the Fatherland; Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR