Background
Vladimir Dzhanibekov was born on the 13th of May, 1942 in Iskandar, Kazakh SSR (now Republic of Uzbekistan)
Vladimir Dzhanibekov was born on the 13th of May, 1942 in Iskandar, Kazakh SSR (now Republic of Uzbekistan)
Vladimir Dzhanibekov completed secondary school in Tashkent (Uzbek SSR). From 1953 to 1958 he studied at Tashkent Suvorov military school, but had to return to secondary school because of disbanding of Tashkent Suvorov military school. He graduated from secondary school with a Gold Medal. His higher education he got in the USSR.
After school Dzhanibekov was a pilot-instructor, from 8 June, 1968 - senior pilot-instructor of 963 training aviation regiment of Yeisk Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots.
On April 27, 1970 by the order of Air Force Commander-in-Chief he was applied to the post of listener-cosmonaut at Cosmonaut Corps of Air Force Cosmonaut Training Center (5th group).
May 1973 - November 1974 - 3rd crew commander for the first test flight with B. Andreev;
December 1974 - June 1975 - 4th crew commander of the spacecraft «Soyuz-19» under the ASTP program with B. Andreev;
2 December 1974 - second reserve crew commander of the spacecraft «Soyuz-16 (reserve crew commander A. Filipchenko)» under the ASTP program;
26 May 1980 - reserve crew commander of the spacecraft «Soyuz-36» (crew commander V.N. Kubasov) under Soviet-Hungarian program;
April-October 1983 - reserve crew commander under the program of 3rd initial expedition on orbital station «Salyut-7» with M. Manarov.
In 1986 he left the cosmonaut corps in connection with the appointment to a new position. Then he worked at Yuri A. Gagarin State Scientific Research-and-Testing Cosmonaut Training Center.
During his cosmonaut career Dzhanibekov mede 5 space flights:
1st flight - 10-16 January - he was a crew commander of the spacecraft «Soyuz-27» (landing on «Soyuz-26») under the program of first visiting expedition on orbital station «Salyut-6» together with O. Makarov. He worked abroad the station together with the main crew including Y. Romanenko, G. Grechko.
Mission duration: 5 days, 22 hours, 58 minuses, 58 seconds. Call sign: «Pamir-1».
2nd flight - 22-30 March 1981 - he was a Soviet-Mongolian crew commander of the spacecraft «Soyuz-39» together with J. Gurragchaa. He worked on the long-term orbital station «Salyut-6» together with the main crew including V. Kovalenka and V. Savinykh.
Mission duration: 7 days, 20 hours, 42 minuses, 03 seconds. Call sign: «Pamir-1».
3rd flight - 24 June - 2 July 1982 - he was was a crew commander of the spacecraft «Soyuz T-6» with A. Ivanchenkov and J.-L. Chrétienunder the Soviet-French program. He worked on the orbital station «Salyut-7» together with the main crew including A. Berezovoy and V. Lebedev.
Mission duration: 7 days, 21 hours, 50 minuses, 52 seconds. Call sign: «Pamir-1».
4th flight - 17-29 July 1984 - he was a crew commander of the spacecraft «Soyuz T-12» under the program of visiting expedition together with S. Savitskaya and I. Volk. During the flight on orbital station «Salyut-7» (with a crew EO-3 including L. Kizim, V. Solovyov, O. At’kov) on July 25, 1984 he made a spacewalk together with S. Savitskaya lasting 3 hours 35 minuses for testing of apparatus for cutting and welding of materials in space.
Mission duration: 11 days, 19 hours, 14 minuses, 36 seconds. Call sign: «Pamir-1».
5th flight - 6 July - 26 September - he was a crew commander of the spacecraft «Soyuz T-13» together with V. Savinykh. For the first time docking with unguided non-working station was made. Orbital station «Salyut-7» was repaired, thereby its using in manned regime became possible. He worked on orbital station «Salyut-7» with V. Basyutin, A. Volkov and G. Grechko, and returned to the Earth with them.
Mission duration: 112 days, 03 hours, 12 minuses, 06 seconds. Call sign: «Pamir-1».
