Background
Yuriy Vasilievich Malyshev was born on August 27, 1941 in Nikolaevsk village of the Volgograd region, the RSFSR (Russia).
Yuriy Vasilievich Malyshev was born on August 27, 1941 in Nikolaevsk village of the Volgograd region, the RSFSR (Russia).
In 1959 Malyshev graduated from the 10th grade of the secondary school No. 24, Taganrog, Rostov region. Later, he completed one course of Kachinsky VVAUL. Then he studied at the Kharkov Institute of Art named after S.I. Gritsevets and at the External Faculty of the VVA named after Yu.A. Gagarin.
Before enrolling in a group of cosmonauts, Yuriy Vasilievich Malyshev worked as a pilot and then as a senior pilot of 168 Guards APIB 34 VA of the Transcaucasian Military District. In 1967 by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force he was enlisted in the cosmonaut corps of the Air Force CTC for the position of the listener-cosmonaut (4th set). Later he served as a cosmonaut of the cosmonaut group of the 3rd department of the 1st administration.
In 1976 Malyshev started working as a commander of the second crew of the “Soyuz-22” spacecraft under the MKF-6 multi-zone camera test program and was also an understudy of the commander V. Bykovsky. In 1983 Malyshev was a commander of one of the reserve crews for the flight to the DOS "Salute-7" and also a commander of the backup crew. In June 1987 - June 1988 he played a role of a commander of the third (backup) crew of the “Soyuz TM-6” spacecraft under the program of the final stage of EO-3 and EO-4 on the OS “Mir”. In 1988 he dropped out of the cosmonaut corps for health reasons (reserve colonel).
Yuriy Vasilievich Malyshev realized 2 cosmic flights. During the first flight that took place on June 5-9, 1980 he served as a commander of the expedition of visiting the “Salyut-6” orbital station and the “Soyuz T-2” spacecraft together with V. Aksenov. For the second flight on April 3-11, 1984, he was appointed to a post of a commander of the Soviet-Indian expedition of visiting the “Salyut-7” orbital station on the “Soyuz T-11” spacecraft.