A group portrait of cosmonauts involved with the Interkosmos program from the first mission, Soyuz 28 (1978) to Soyuz T-11 (1984).

Top: Sigmund Jähn (East Germany), Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Georgi Ivanov (Bulgaria), Yuri Malyshev, Rakesh Sharma (India), Bertalan Farkas (Hungary), Leonid Popov, Boris Volynov and Valery Bykovsky. Bottom: Pham Tuân (Vietnam), Viktor Gorbatko, Vladimír Remek (Czechoslovakia), Alexei Gubarev, Dumitru Prunariu (Romania), Pyotr Klimuk, Alexei Leonov, Mirosław Hermaszewski (Poland), Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (Cuba), Anatoly Berezovoy.

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This is a belated birthday post for Pyotr Klimuk, who celebrated his 70th on July 10. He made three flights in 1973, 1975 and 1978. From 1991 to 2003 he served as head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. He was the first Belarusian in space.

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Pyotr Klimuk is a former soviet cosmonaut, awarded hero of the soviet union twice, three orders of Lenin and order for service to the homeland.
Klimuk is a graduate of the Gagarin Air Force Academy and the Lenin Military Political Academy, and and the first Belarusian to perform space travel
after being selected to join the space program a year after entering the Soviet air force in 1964. He’s also my absolute FAVE because we share a birthday (10th July) making him the coolest space tripping cat.

I missed this. Happy belated birthday Pyotr!

The crew of Soyuz 30: Pyotr Klimuk and Poland’s Mirosław Hermaszewski (1978)

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A portrait of Pyotr Klimuk

It was Pyotr Klimuk’s 69th birthday today. Here he is aboard Salyut 6 (1978)

Pyotr Klimuk and Valentin Lebedev in the Soyuz simulator before their Soyuz 13 flight (1973)

Pyotr Klimuk and Polish cosmonaut Mirosław Hermaszewski in the Soyuz trainer (1978)

Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski (the first and only Pole in space) in front of the Soyuz simulator (1978)