Background
Viktor Petrovich Savinykh was born in Berezkiny, Kirov Oblast, Russian SFSR on March 7, 1940.
Viktor Petrovich Savinykh was born in Berezkiny, Kirov Oblast, Russian SFSR on March 7, 1940.
From March to October 1960 - worked at the Sverdlovsk Railway as a foreman of the brigade for the repair of artificial structures of the 6th track service distance.
From September 1968 to May 1969 - passed pre-diploma practice as a technician, and from May 1969 worked as an engineer in the 312th department of the Experimental Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau.
From February to March 1974 - worked as an engineer in the 314th department, and from March 1, 1974 to September 1975, worked there as a senior engineer. He was engaged in the development of optical instruments for lunar spacecraft and for orbital stations DOS and Soyuz spacecraft.
From September 1, 1975 to December 1978 - worked as a senior engineer in the 111th department, where he worked on the development of on-board documentation.
December 8, 1978 was appointed to the position of test cosmonaut by order of Ministry of General Machine Building №439
Since December 8, 1978 - the test cosmonaut of the 110th department; from March 1, 1982 - the test cosmonaut of the 291st Division; from April 11, 1986 - instructor-cosmonaut-tester of the 1st class of the 291st department; from July 1, 1988 - the instructor-test cosmonaut, the head of the complex number 77 (department 300).
From December 1981 to August 1982 - was trained to fly to DOS Salyut-7 under the program of the 2nd visiting expedition in the second crew of the Soyuz T-7 spacecraft (together with V.Vasyutin and I.Pronina).
From September 1982 to March 1983 - was trained for the flight to DOS Salyut-7 under the visiting expedition program as a flight engineer of the second crew (together V.Vasyutin and A.Levchenko).
March 8, 1983 - was transferred to the second crew of EO-2 (Soyuz T-8 spacecraft) instead of A. Serebrov, who was transferred to the main crew;
From May 1983 to January 1984 - was trained to fly to DOS Salyut-7 under the EO-3 program (Soyuz T-10 spacecraft) as a flight engineer of the third crew (together with V. Vasyutin), and with October 1983 - the second crew, with V. Vasyutin and V. Polyakov.
From March to 1984 - was trained in the EP-4 program (flight of a woman with spacewalk, Soyuz T-12 spacecraft) in the second crew (together with V.Vasyutin and E.Ivanova).
From October 1984 to March 1985 - was trained to fly to DOS "Salyut-7" program EO-4 as a flight engineer of the first crew, together with V. Vasyutin and A. Volkov.
From March to May 1985 - was trained as a flight engineer of the main repair crew (together with V. Dzhanibekov) for the rescue program of the DOS Salyut-7 and the first stage of the 4th main expedition.
From September 1986 to July 1987 - was trained to fly to Mir as a flight engineer of the second crew of the Soyuz TM-3 spacecraft under the EP-1 program, together with A.Soloviev and M.Habib (Syria).
From November 1987 to May 1988 - was trained to fly to the OS "Mir" under the EP-2 program as a flight engineer of the first crew of the Soyuz TM-5 spacecraft (the second Soviet-Bulgarian flight).
A small planet 6890, opened on September 3, 1975, was named after him.
1st flight - March 12 - May 26, 1981 as a flight engineer of the Soyuz T-4 spacecraft and the 5th main expedition to the DOS Salyut-6. Crew: Kovalenok V.V. - K.K., Savinykh V.P. - BI. He worked at the station with the crews of the 10th and 11th visiting expeditions (the Mongolian People's Republic and Socialist Republic of Vietnam) under the Intercosmos program.
Flight Duration: 74 days 17 hours 37 minutes 23 seconds. Callsign: "Photon-2".
2nd flight - June 6 to November 21, 1985 as a flight engineer of the Soyuz T-13 spacecraft (call sign - Pamir-2) and the 4th main expedition to the Salyut-7 dos. Crew at the launch: Dzhanibekov V. A. - KK, Savinykh VP - BI In the first stage, together with V. Dzhanibekov restored the work capacity of the station, made an exit to outer space: 02.08.1985 - 5 hours. At the second stage he continued to work together with V. Vasyutin and A.Volkov.Due to V.Vasyutin's illness, the flight was stopped ahead of schedule, and Savinykh was appointed commander of the crew. Duration of the flight: 168 days 3 hours 51 minutes 8 Callsign: "Cheget-2".
3 flight – from 7 to 17 June 1988 as a flight engineer of Soyuz TM-5 spacecraft. Crew: Solovyev A.Ya. - K.K., Savinykh V.P. - BI, Alexandrov Alexander – K.I. (Bulgaria). On June 9, a docking was carried out with the Mir station, where the crew of the 4th main expedition worked (VG Titov, M.Kh. Manarov). After completing the joint flight program, the visiting expedition returned to Earth in the Soyuz TM-4 spacecraft. Flight duration: 9 days 20 hours 9 minutes 19 seconds. Callsign: "Rodnik-2"
