Key facts
- Born
- Boris Valentinovich Volynov , ( 1934-12-18 ) 18 December 1934 (age 91) , Irkutsk , Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- Occupation
- Electrical Engineer
- Status
- Retired
- Rank
- Colonel , Soviet Air Force
- Time in space
- 52d 07h 17m
- Selection
- Air Force Group 1
- Missions
- Soyuz 5 , Soyuz 21
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Boris
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Irkutsk
- Occupation
- test pilot
- Educated at
- Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Military rank
- colonel
- Image
- Boris Volynov 1963.jpg
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- member of
- First group of Soviet cosmonauts
- name in native language
- Борис Валентинович Волынов
- Commons category
- Boris Volynov
- date of birth
- 1934-12-18
- P450
- Soyuz 21
- time in space
- 75317
- allegiance
- Soviet Union
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Encyclopedic overview
Boris Valentinovich Volynov (Russian: Борис Валентинович Волынов; born 18 December 1934) is a Russian former cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soviet Union's Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21. Following the death of Alexei Leonov in October 2019, he is the last surviving member of the original group of cosmonauts. He is also considered to be the first Jew in space.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boris Volynov” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.