List of Salyut visitors
Encyclopedia
This is a list of visitors to the Salyut space stations in alphabetical order. The names of stations to the right of crew members indicate which stations they visited. If they were a member of an Expedition crew aboard that station, the station name is in bold, and if they commanded the station, the station name is in italics. All cosmonauts were citizens of the Soviet Union
unless otherwise noted.
made the most visits to Salyut stations, with two trips to Salyut 6
and three to Salyut 7
. Georgi Grechko
was the only cosmonaut to visit three different Salyut stations; Salyut 4
, Salyut 6 and Salyut 7. Svetlana Savitskaya
, who made two flights to Salyut 7, was the only woman to fly as part of the programme.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
unless otherwise noted.
Statistics
Between 1971 and 1986, 48 individuals of eleven different nationalities visited the Salyut space stations. Vladimir DzhanibekovVladimir Dzhanibekov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov is a former cosmonaut who made five flights.He was born in the remote area of Iskandar in Tashkent Province, Uzbekistan. He changed his surname from Krysin when he married to honor his wife's family, which was noble kin of the descendants of the medieval Kazakh...
made the most visits to Salyut stations, with two trips to Salyut 6
Salyut 6
Salyut 6 , DOS-5, was a Soviet orbital space station, the eighth flown as part of the Salyut programme. Launched on 29 September 1977 by a Proton rocket, the station was the first of the 'second-generation' type of space station. Salyut 6 possessed several revolutionary advances over the earlier...
and three to Salyut 7
Salyut 7
Salyut 7 was a space station in low Earth orbit from April 1982 to February 1991. It was first manned in May 1982 with two crew via Soyuz T-5, and last visited in June 1986, by Soyuz T-15. Various crew and modules were used over its lifetime, including a total of 12 manned and 15 unmanned launches...
. Georgi Grechko
Georgi Grechko
Georgy Mikhaylovich Grechko is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on several space flights among which Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26, and Soyuz T-14.Grechko graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Mechanics with a doctorate in mathematics. He was a member of Communist Party of Soviet Union...
was the only cosmonaut to visit three different Salyut stations; Salyut 4
Salyut 4
Salyut 4 was a Salyut space station launched on December 26, 1974 into an orbit with an apogee of 355 km, a perigee of 343 km and an orbital inclination of 51.6 degrees. It was essentially a copy of the DOS 3, and unlike its ill-fated sibling it was a complete success...
, Salyut 6 and Salyut 7. Svetlana Savitskaya
Svetlana Savitskaya
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya She started training as a cosmonaut in 1980. Upon returning to Earth, Savitskaya was assigned as the commander of an all-female Soyuz crew to Salyut 7 in commemoration of the International Women's Day, a mission that was later canceled.She was twice awarded the Hero...
, who made two flights to Salyut 7, was the only woman to fly as part of the programme.
By nationality
| Nationality | Salyut | Remarks | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Total | |||||||||
| Trips | Fliers | Trips | Fliers | Trips | Fliers | Trips | Fliers | Trips | Fliers | Trips | Fliers | Trips | Fliers | ||
 Soviet Union |
3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 20 | 24 | 19 | 61 | 38 | |
 Cuba |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Czechoslovakia |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 German Democratic Republic |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Early Modern France |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
 Hungary |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 India |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
 Mongolia |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Poland |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Kingdom of Romania |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Vietnam |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 34 | 28 | 26 | 21 | 71 | 48 | |
By organisation
| Organisation | Salyut | Remarks | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Total | |||||||||
| Trips | Fliers | Trips | Fliers | Trips | Fliers | Trips | Fliers | Trips | Fliers | Trips | Fliers | Trips | Fliers | ||
| Soviet space program Soviet space program The Soviet space program is the rocketry and space exploration programs conducted by the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the 1930s until its dissolution in 1991... me |
3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 20 | 24 | 19 | 61 | 38 | |
| Interkosmos Intercosmos Interkosmos was a space program of the Soviet Union designed to include members of military forces of allied Warsaw Pact countries in manned and unmanned missions... |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | |
| Total | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 34 | 28 | 26 | 21 | 71 | 48 | |
A
- Vladimir AksyonovVladimir AksyonovVladimir Viktorovich Aksyonov is a Soviet cosmonaut, married with two children....
(Salyut 6)
- Aleksandr AleksandrovAleksandr Pavlovich AleksandrovAleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov , born February 20, 1943) is a former Soviet cosmonaut and twice Hero of the Soviet Union ....
(Salyut 7)
- Yuri ArtyukhinYuri ArtyukhinYury Petrovich Artyukhin was a Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer who made a single flight into space.Artyukhin graduated from the Soviet Air Force Institute with a doctorate in engineering, specialising in military communication systems. He was selected for the space programme in 1963 and...
(Salyut 3)
- Oleg AtkovOleg AtkovOleg Yur'yevich At'kov is a Soviet cosmonaut. He is married with one child....
(Salyut 7)
D
- Georgi Dobrovolski (Salyut 1)
- Vladimir DzhanibekovVladimir DzhanibekovVladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov is a former cosmonaut who made five flights.He was born in the remote area of Iskandar in Tashkent Province, Uzbekistan. He changed his surname from Krysin when he married to honor his wife's family, which was noble kin of the descendants of the medieval Kazakh...
(Salyut 6, Salyut 6, Salyut 7, Salyut 7, Salyut 7)
G
- Yuri GlazkovYuri GlazkovYury Nikolayevich Glazkov was a Soviet Air Force officer and a cosmonaut. Glazkov held the rank of major general in the Russian Air Force....
(Salyut 5)
- Viktor GorbatkoViktor GorbatkoViktor Vasilyevich Gorbatko was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, and Soyuz 37 missions.After leaving the space program in 1982 he taught at the Air Force Engineering Academy in Moscow.-References:...
(Salyut 5, Salyut 6)
- Georgi GrechkoGeorgi GrechkoGeorgy Mikhaylovich Grechko is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on several space flights among which Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26, and Soyuz T-14.Grechko graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Mechanics with a doctorate in mathematics. He was a member of Communist Party of Soviet Union...
(Salyut 4, Salyut 6, Salyut 7)
- Aleksei GubarevAleksei GubarevAleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two space flights: Soyuz 17 and Soyuz 28.Gubarev graduated from the Soviet Naval Aviation School in 1952 and went on to serve with the Soviet Air Force...
(Salyut 4, Salyut 6)
- Jugderdemidiyn Gurragcha (Salyut 6)
K
- Leonid KizimLeonid KizimLeonid Denisovich Kizim was a Soviet cosmonaut who was twice named a Hero of the Soviet Union ....
(Salyut 6, Salyut 7, Salyut 7)
- Pyotr KlimukPyotr KlimukPyotr Ilyich Klimuk Klimuk attended the Leninski Komsomol Chernigov High Aviation School and entered the Soviet Air Force in 1964. The following year, he was selected to join the space programme.His first flight was a long test flight on Soyuz 13 in 1973...
(Salyut 4, Salyut 6)
- Vladimir KovalyonokVladimir Kovalyonok-Honours and awards:* Hero of the Soviet Union, twice * Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd class * Order of Military Merit * Three Orders of Lenin...
(Salyut 6, Salyut 6)
- Valery Kubasov (Salyut 6)
L
- Valentin LebedevValentin LebedevValentin Vitaljevich Lebedev was a Soviet cosmonaut who made two flights into space. His stay aboard the Space Station Salyut 7 with Anatoly Berezovoy in 1982, which lasted 211 days, was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records....
(Salyut 7)
- Vladimir LyakhovVladimir LyakhovVladimir Afanasyevich Lyakhov , Ukrainian SSR), Soviet Union on July 20, 1941) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice named a Hero of the Soviet Union....
(Salyut 6, Salyut 7)
M
- Oleg Makarov (Salyut 6, Salyut 6)
- Yuri MalyshevYuri MalyshevYury Vasilyevich Malyshev was born in the village Nikolayevsk, Stalingrad Oblast , USSR on August 27, 1941. Studied in Taganrog's high school N24, 1949-1959. Married with two children. Selected as a cosmonaut on May 7, 1967. Retired on July 20, 1988...
(Salyut 6, Salyut 7)
- Arnaldo Tamayo MéndezArnaldo Tamayo MéndezArnaldo Tamayo Méndez was the first Cuban citizen and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into earth orbit...
(Salyut 6)
P
- Viktor PatsayevViktor PatsayevViktor Ivanovich Patsayev was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and had the unfortunate distinction of being part of the second crew to die during a space flight...
(Salyut 1)
- Phạm Tuân (Salyut 6)
- Leonid PopovLeonid PopovLeonid Ivanovich Popov is a former Soviet cosmonaut.Popov was born in Oleksandriia, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. He was selected as a cosmonaut on April 27, 1970, and flew as Commander on Soyuz 35, Soyuz 40 and Soyuz T-7, logging 200 days, 14 hours, and 45 minutes in space before his...
(Salyut 6, Salyut 6, Salyut 7)
- Pavel PopovichPavel Popovich- Biography :He was born in Uzyn, Kiev Oblast of Soviet Union . to Roman Porfirievich Popovich and Theodosia Kasyanovna Semyonov. He had two sisters and two brothers ....
(Salyut 3)
- Dumitru PrunariuDumitru PrunariuDumitru-Dorin Prunariu is a retired Romanian astronaut who flew aboard Soyuz 40.-Early life and career:Born on September 27, 1952 in Braşov, Romania, Prunariu graduated from the Physics and Mathematics high school in Braşov in 1971 and from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest in 1976,...
(Salyut 6)
R
- Vladimír RemekVladimír RemekVladimír Remek is the first Czechoslovak in space and the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States. As of 2004, with the entry of the Czech Republic into the European Union Vladimír Remek is considered to be the first astronaut from the EU...
(Salyut 6)
- Yuri RomanenkoYuri RomanenkoYury Viktorovich Romanenko is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union . Over his career, Yury Romanenko spent a total of 430 days 20 hours 21 minutes 30 seconds in space and 18 hours in space walks. In 1987 he was a resident of the Mir space station, launching on Soyuz TM-2 and...
(Salyut 6, Salyut 6)
- Valery RyuminValery RyuminValery Victorovich Ryumin, born August 16, 1939 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur) is a former Soviet cosmonaut.In 1958, he was graduated from the Kaliningrad Mechanical Engineering Technical College with the specialty "Cold Working of Metal." In 1966, he was graduated from the Department of Electronics and...
(Salyut 6, Salyut 6)
S
- Viktor SavinykhViktor SavinykhViktor Petrovich Savinykh was born in Berezkiny, Kirov Oblast, Russian SFSR on March 7, 1940. Married with one child. Selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. Retired on February 9, 1989.Flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz T-4, Soyuz T-13 and Soyuz TM-5....
(Salyut 6, Salyut 7)
- Svetlana SavitskayaSvetlana SavitskayaSvetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya She started training as a cosmonaut in 1980. Upon returning to Earth, Savitskaya was assigned as the commander of an all-female Soyuz crew to Salyut 7 in commemoration of the International Women's Day, a mission that was later canceled.She was twice awarded the Hero...
(Salyut 7, Salyut 7)
- Aleksandr SerebrovAleksandr SerebrovAleksandr Aleksandrovich Serebrov is a former Soviet cosmonaut. He was born in Moscow, on February 15, 1944, graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology , and was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. He retired on May 10, 1995...
(Salyut 7)
- Vitali SevastyanovVitali SevastyanovVitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions.He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Aviation Institute and after graduation in 1959, joined Sergey Korolev's design bureau, where he worked on the design of the Vostok spacecraft. He also lectured...
(Salyut 4)
- Rakesh SharmaRakesh SharmaWing commander Rakesh Sharma, AC, is a former Indian Air Force test pilot, and Cosmonaut aboard Soyuz T-11 as part of an Intercosmos Research Team...
(Salyut 7)
- Vladimir SolovyovVladimir Alekseyevich SolovyovVladimir Alekseyevich Solovyov is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union ....
(Salyut 7, Salyut 7)
- Gennady StrekalovGennady StrekalovGennadi Mikhailovich Strekalov was an Instructor-Test-Cosmonaut and Department Head at Russian aerospace firm RSC Energia. He has been decorated twice as Hero of the Soviet Union...
(Salyut 6, Salyut 7)
V
- Vladimir VasyutinVladimir VasyutinVladimir Vladimirovich Vasyutin was a Soviet cosmonaut.He was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978...
(Salyut 7)
- Igor VolkIgor VolkIgor Petrovich Volk was a cosmonaut and test pilot in the Soviet Union. He is married and has two children.Igor Volk was selected as a cosmonaut on July 30, 1980, flew as Research Cosmonaut on Soyuz T-12, the 7th expedition to Salyut 7...
(Salyut 7)
- Aleksandr Volkov (Salyut 7)
- Vladislav VolkovVladislav VolkovVladislav Nikolayevich Volkov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 missions. The second mission terminated fatally.-Biography:...
(Salyut 1)
- Boris VolynovBoris VolynovBoris Valentinovich Volynov is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21. He was the first Jewish cosmonaut.-Biography:...
(Salyut 5)