Igor Volk

• Salyut 7 EP-4 T-12/Sojus Soyuz T-11 (1984 )

Igor Petrovich Volk (Russian Игорь Петрович Волк, scientific transliteration Igor Petrovich people, born April 12, 1937 in Smijiw, Kharkov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR ) is a pilot and former Soviet cosmonaut. Wolk flew as a test pilot for the first flight of Buran OK - GLI prototype.

Life

Igor Wolk graduated 1956, the military pilot flight training school in Kirovograd, before he went to the store " Strela " of the Moscow State Aviation Institute, which he successfully completed in 1969. After Wolk in 1978 selected as a cosmonaut, he began in December 1978, the basic training for cosmonauts OKP, which, after acceptance by the State Inter-agency Commission on 30 July 1980 who wanted to use the pilot as a cosmonaut for the Buran program in July 1980 was able to complete. In 1984, Igor Wolk as a research cosmonaut member of the fourth visiting team from Salyut 7; as a feeder ship served Soyuz T- 12th

After Wolk 1996 retired from the cosmonaut corps, he worked as a civilian test pilot for the Air Research Institute of the Russian Ministry of Aviation Industry. After his 40-year service anniversary Wolk was on 26 February 2002 to retire. He currently holds the rank of colonel in the reserve of the Russian Air Force. Igor Wolk operated at the time as an inventor. His current project " Lark" includes a study on a car that will own flight characteristics.

Private

Wolk is married and has two children.