081 VALERY BYKOVSKY SIGNED PHOTO POSTCARD!!!

It's offered to your attention the photo postcard of the fifth Soviet cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky.

The photo postcard is signed by Valery Bykovsky on the left part of the front side. The signature is a bit blotted. Under the photo it is printed: "Citizen of Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics pilot-cosmonaut Valery Fedorovich Bykovsky".

Russian Space lovers and serious collectors are welcome!

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

The back side of the postcard is not filled in, so, you can do it yourself! That could be a great gift to your friend!

Size - about 4x6 inches.

Condition - satisfactory The card is a bit worn out. Left top corner is a bit torn. Please see the scan.

Valery Bykovsky was born on August 02, 1934 in Pavlovsky Posad, Moscow Region. In 1953 he finished 6-th Military aeroschool of primary education of pilots. In 1955 he finished High Military Aeroschool of Pilots. After it Valery Bykovsky continued his study and in 1968 he graduated from the Military Air Engineering Academy by N.E. Zhukovsky and recieved qualification "pilot-engineer- cosmonaut".
On March 07, 1960, Valery Bykovsky 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 June 14, 1963 Bykovsky performed group flight of two manned spacecrafts on VOSTOK-5 together with the world's first Woman in Space V. Tereskova (VOSTOK-6). For this flight he was awarded the highest award of USSR - Hero of USSR Star.
On September 15, 1976 Bykovsky performed his second spaceflight together with V. Aksenov as the Commander of SOYUZ-22. During the flight was tested multi-zonal photo camera MKF-6, made in GDR.
On August 26, 1978 performed his third spaceflight together with Z. Jen (GDR) as the Commander of SOYUZ-31 Soviet-German crew (landing on spacecraft SOYUZ-29) according to the program of the fourth expedition of visiting Orbital Station SALUTE-6.
After the flight he was engaged mostly into public and representative activities. He was also preparing for other missions in back-up crews.

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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