017 ANDRIAN NIKOLAEV SIGNED PHOTO!!!

It's offered to your attention the photo of the world's first group flight of two manned spacecrafts participant Andrian Nikolaev.

The photo is signed by Andrian Nikolaev on the front side. The signature is very clean and sharp. Please see the scan.

Russian Space lovers and serious collectors are welcome!

NIKOLAEV'S SIGNATURE IS NOT AUTOPEN, NOT PRINTED OR COPIED!!!
IT'S GENUINE!!!

Size - about 4,5x7 inches.

Condition - excellent. Face side of the photo is in perfect condition. Back side is a bit dirty. Please see the scan.

Andrian Nikolaev was born on September 05, 1929 in the village Shorshely, Tchuvashia, Russia. In 1954 Nikolaev graduated from the High School of Pilots in Turkestan military district. Since February 1957, he became a pilot.
On March 07, 1960, Andrain Nikolaev was involved to the Group of Cosmonauts Training Center of Air Forces which was being formed at that time and on January 25, 1961 he was engaged for the position of Cosmonaut and given the qualification "Air Forces Cosmonaut". On August 11, 1961 Andrian Nikolaev performed the world's first group flight of two manned spacecrafts on VOSTOK-3 together with P. Popovich (VOSTOK-4). For this feat he was awarded the highest award of USSR - Hero of USSR Star.
On June 01, 1970 Nikolaev performed his second spaceflight together with V. Sevastianov as the Commander of SOYUZ-9.
After the flight he was engaged mostly into public and representative activities. He was also preparing for two other missions in back-up crews between his two flights.

Seller has a number of interesting photos of Russian cosmonauts, flown covers and hardware. Seller accepts the requests to find something related to Russian space explorations.

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