Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov

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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov; Lieutenant General, Red Air Force; born December 8, 1927, Petropavlocsk, Kazakstan; married two children. Graduated from the Kachinsk Air Force College (1949), enrolled in the Air Force Academy in Moscow in 1953, and became a cosmonaut in 1963. He was the backup pilot of Soyuz 3, command pilot of Soyuz 4, commander of Soyuz 8 and commander of Soyuz 10. Gen. Shatalov became the Cosmonaut Corps Director of Flight Training.