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Key facts
- Born
- Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky , ( 1934-08-02 ) 2 August 1934, Pavlovsky Posad , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Died
- 27 March 2019 (2019-03-27) (aged 84)
- Occupation
- Pilot
- Awards
- Hero of the Soviet Union , Order of Lenin
- Rank
- Major General , Soviet Air Force
- Time in space
- 20d 17h 48m
- Selection
- 1960 Air Force Group 1
- Missions
- Vostok 5 , Soyuz 22 , Soyuz 31 / Soyuz 29
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Valery
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Pavlovsky Posad
- Occupation
- military officer
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Participant in
- 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Field of work
- astronautics
- Military rank
- colonel
- Image
- WaleriBykowski.jpg
- Work location
- Soviet Union
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- Commons category
- Valeri Bykovski
- date of birth
- 1934-01-01
- P450
- Soyuz 31
- time in space
- 29868
- allegiance
- Soviet Union
- date of death
- 2019-01-01
- birth name
- Валерий Фёдорович Быковский
- name in native language
- Валерий Фёдорович Быковский
- member of
- First group of Soviet cosmonauts
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Encyclopedic overview
Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky (Russian: Вале́рий Фёдорович Быко́вский; 2 August 1934 – 27 March 2019) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was also backup for Vostok 3 and Soyuz 37.
Early life and career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Valery Bykovsky” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.