Vladimir Viktorovich Aksyonov (Влади́мир Ви́кторович Аксёнов) (born in Giblitsy, Kazimov Rayon, Ryazan Oblast

Ryazan Oblast

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, USSR on February 1, 1935) is a Soviet cosmonaut, married with two children.
He graduated from institute of Engineering with diploma and graduated from Air Force Institute and graduated from polytechnical Institute. He was a candidate technical science.

Selected as cosmonaut on March 3, 1973. Vladimir Aksyonov was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union

Hero of the Soviet Union

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 on two occasions. Retired on October 17, 1988.

Flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz 22

Soyuz 22

Soyuz 22 was 1976 Soviet manned spaceflight. It was an earth-sciences mission using a modified Soyuz spacecraft, and was also, some observers speculated, a mission to observe NATO exercises near Norway....

 and Soyuz T-2

Soyuz T-2

Soyuz T-2 was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 12th mission to and 10th successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz T-2 crew were the second to visit the long-duration Soyuz 35 resident crew....

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He is currently director of the institute for research of mineral resources.