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Selection of Soviet Cosmonauts 1960 to 1974
7 March 1960 - Air Force Group 1 (Jet Pilots) – USSR
Senior Lieutenant Ivan N. Anikeyev
Major Pavel I. Balyayev
Senior Lieutenant Valentin V. Bondarenko
Senior Lieutenant Valeri F. Bykovsky
Senior Lieutenant Valentin I. Filatyev
Senior Lieutenant Yuri A. Gagarin
Senior Lieutenant Viktor V. Gorbatko
Captain Anatoly Ya. Kartashov
Senior Lieutenant Yevgeni V. Khrunov
Captain Vladimir M. Komarov
Lieutenant Alexey A. Leonov
Senior Lieutenant Grigory G. Nelyubov
Senior Lieutenant Andrian G. Nikolayev
Captain Pavel R. Popovich
Senior Lieutenant Mars Z. Rafikov
Senior Lieutenant Georgi S. Shonin
Senior Lieutenant Gherman S. Titov
Senior Lieutenant Valentin S. Varlamov
Senior Lieutenant Boris V. Volyanov
Senior Lieutenant Dmitri A. Zaikin
12 March 1962 - Female Group - USSR
Tatyana Kuznetsova, Valentina Ponomaryova, Irina Solovyova, Valentina Tereshkova, and Zhanna Yorkina. Of the five civilian women with parachuting experience, only Tereshkova would fly. Soviet high-altitude parachutist, 20-year-old Tatyana Kuznetsova was [and remains] the youngest person ever selected to train for spaceflight.
10 January 1963 - Air Force Group 2 - USSR
Yuri Artyukhin, Eduard Buinovski, Lev Demin, Georgi Dobrovolski, Anatoli Filipchenko, Aleksei Gubarev, Vladislav Gulyayev, Pyotr Kolodin, Eduard Kugno, Anatoli Kuklin, Aleksandr Matinchenko, Vladimir Shatalov, Lev Vorobyov, Anatoli Voronov, Vitali Zholobov
January 25, 1964 - Air Force Group 2 Supplemental – USSR
Georgi Beregovoi
May 26, 1964 - Voskhod Group (Medical Group 1) – USSR
Vladimir Benderov, Georgi Katys, Vasili Lazarev, Boris Polyakov, Aleksei Sorokin, Boris Yegorov
June 11, 1964 - Civilian Specialist Group 1 – USSR
Konstantin Feoktistov
June 1, 1965 - Journalist Group 1 – USSR
Yaroslav Golovanov, Yuri Letunov, Mikhail Rebrov
In 1965, three civilian journalists were selected for cosmonaut training in preparation for flight on a Voskhod mission. When the Voskhod program was canceled, Golovanov and Letunov were dismissed. Rebrov, on the other hand, stayed with the space program as a journalist until 1974.
June 1, 1965 - Medical Group 2 - USSR
Yevgeni Illyin, Aleksandr Kiselyov, Yuri Senkevich
Note: These physicians were selected for the long-duration Voskhod flights, all of which were subsequently canceled to make way for the Soviet Moon program. All three were dismissed at the beginning of the following year.
October 28, 1965 - Air Force Group 3 - USSR
Boris Belousov, Vladimir Degtyarov, Anatoli Fyodorov, Yuri Glazkov, Vitali Grishchenko, Veygeni Khludeyev, Leonid Kizim, Pyotr Klimuk, Gennadi Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Kramarenko, Mikhail Lisun, Aleksandr Petrushenko, Vladimir Preobrazhensky, Valeri Rozhdestvensky, Gennadi Sarafanov, Ansar Sharafutdinov, Vasili Shcheglov, Aleksandr Skvortsov, Eduard Stepanov, Valeri Voloshin, Oleg Yakovlev, Vyacheslav Zudov
This group of cosmonauts was selected for participation in five separate Soyuz programs that the USSR was running. These included military programs (with and without the Almaz/Salyut space stations) and two lunar programs (only one of which aimed at an actual lunar landing). In the end, only the orbital program and the space station program went ahead, and few of the cosmonauts from this group ever were given the chance to fly.
May 23, 1966 - Civilian Specialist Group 2 – USSR
Sergei Anokhin, Vladimir Bugrov, Gennadi Dolgopolov, Georgi Grechko, Valeri Kubasov, Oleg Makarov, Vladislav Volkov, Aleksei Yeliseyev
31 January 1967 - Civilian Specialist Group 2 Supplemental - USSR
Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Vitali Sevastyanov
22 May 1967 - Academy of Sciences Group - USSR
Mars Fathulin, Rudolf Gulyayev, Ordinard Kolomitsev, Vsevolod Yegorov, Valentin Yershov
27 May 1968 - Civilian Specialist Group 3 - USSR
Vladimir Fartushny, Viktor Patsayev, Valeri Yazdovsky
10 September 1969 - Civilian Engineer Group - USSR
Anatoli Demyanenko, Valeri Makrushin, Dmitri Yuyukov
27 April 1970 - Air Force Group 5 - USSR
Anatoli Berezovoi, Aleksandr Dedkov, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Nikolai Fefelov, Valeri Illarianov, Yuri Isaulov, Vladimir Kozlov, Leonid Popov, Yuri Romanenko
25 February 1971 - Scientific Group - USSR
Gurgen Ivanyan
22 March 1972 - Civilian Specialist Group 4 - USSR
Boris Andreyev, Valentin Lebedev, Yuri Ponomaryov
22 March 1972 - Medical Group 3 - USSR
Georgi Machinski, Valeri Polyakov, Lev Smirenny
27 March 1973 - Civilian Specialist Group 5 - USSR
Vladimir Aksyonov, Vladimir Gevorkyan, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Valeri Romanov, Valery Ryumin, Gennady Strekalov
1 January 1974 - Physician Group - USSR
Zyyadin Abuzyarov
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