Polyakov astronaut biography

Sechenov and received a doctor's diploma; From September to June, he studied at the clinical residency of the Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine. Semashko; From July to October, he worked as a senior inspector of the 3rd Main Directorate of Space Medicine under the USSR Ministry of Health and part-time and part-time worked as a doctor of emergency ambulance; Since the year, he has been working at the Institute of Biological Problems.

Since October 19 - metro with the years - candidate for cosmonauts -research by IMBP. From October to December, he underwent general cosmic training in the CPC named after Gagarin; From May 1 to the year, he headed a detachment of cosmonauts-research by IMBP. In this composition, the crew was prepared before the end of May, when, due to the need to repair the Salyut-6 station thermoregulation system, the flight of the Soyuz T-3 ship with the medical program was decided to postpone, and instead sending the crew of “repairmen” to the station; From October 3 to January 30, he underwent direct preparation for the flight at Salyut-7 OK on the long-term flight program of the astronaut-doctor as part of the second crew of the EO-Zs along with Vladimir Vasyutin and Viktor Savin; In June, the crew of the former first crew: Vasily Lazarev, Gennady Strekalov, Valery Polyakov was appointed duplicate under this new program and began preparation.

In October of the year, Gennady Strekalov was transferred to the main crew, replacing Konstantin Feoktistov suspended in it for health reasons. And in his place in a duplicate crew, Viktor Savin was appointed. During the start of the Soyuz T-3 KK on November 27, Valery Polyakov was the understudy of the cosmonaut-researcher of the main crew; From June to October, the year was prepared for the long-term flight of the cosmonaut as part of the group; Since August but November, three -month fees in the CPC of the Air Force named after В их рамках с 10 сентября по 25 октября успешно прошел программу подготовки к работам в открытом космосе; From February 15 to August 17, direct preparations for a one and a half-year flight of the cosmonaut were held as the first cosmonaut-study of the crew of the expedition of the EP-Z visit with Vladimir Lyakhov and Abdul Mamand Afghanistan; From January to July, he was trained in the CPC for a half -year flight as part of a group of astronauts along with Herman Arzamazov and Boris Morukov; From July 1 to December 17, he went on direct preparation for the flight to the Mir OK as part of the EO, 16, 17 as an astronaut-research doctor of the first crew along with Viktor Afanasyev and Yuri Usachev.

Titov, M. Volkov, S. Krilev, with whom he returned to Earth. During the flight, he worked out new methods of medical support for long -term expeditions. Flight duration: 24 hours 36 minutes. Tsibliev, A. continued to work in orbit as part of the EO Yu. Malenchenko, T. Musabaev and EO A. Victorenko, E. returned to Earth along with the crew of the EO on March 22 of the year.

Flight duration: day 17 hours 58 minutes. It has over 50 publications in domestic and foreign publications devoted to the problems of space biology and medicine. Hero of Russia. Medal "For Merit in Cosmos Mastering" G.