Igor Volk





Full Name: Igor Petrovich Volk
Birthdate: April 12, 1937 - Zmiiv, Ukraine, USSR
Death: January 3, 2017 - Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Education: Kirovograd Miliary Aviation School
Fedotov Test Pilot School
Moscow Aviation Institute
Selection: Air Force Group 5 (1970)




Soyuz T-12 Salyut 7 EP-4
July 17-29, 1984 July 17-24, 1984








Igor Volk was the planned commander of the first flight
of the Buran space shuttle




Cosmonaur Igor Volk Igor Volk trains in a Soyuz simulator The Soyuz T-12 crew of
Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Svetlana Savitskaya, and Igor Volk



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