In total, from 1960 to the end of the 90s, about 40 cosmonauts and space flight candidates underwent pre-flight training in Armenia.
1969 Cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov Dr Feoktistov was among the first cosmonauts with Yuri Gagarin Voskhod 1 first Sputnik Vostok Voskhod Soyuz Salyut Mir
Feoktistov’s visit in Yerevan in 1969 and decisions drawn with Prof Gurzadyan were crucial for the project of space observatories ORION
Training with the participation of our employees was also conducted in Star City RSC Energia Baikonur
During the flights, GIKA employees coordinated the work of cosmonauts from the Flight Control Center (Moscow) Center for Deep Space Communications
Note by G.A. Gurzadyan and a copy of the plan for training cosmonauts to work with the ORION-2 observatory
Letter from cosmonaut A. Leonov to G. Gurzadyan with a request to develop and supply a simulator for the ORION-2 project
Letter from the Cosmonaut Training Center. There are 10 cosmonauts on the list of those arriving for training in Garni
Group of cosmonauts under the ORION-1 program: Pyotr Kolodin, Anatoly Voronov, Viktor Patsaev, Nikolai Rukavishnikov near Lake Sevan.
In the temple in Garni. From left to right: Alexey Leonov, …, Vasily Lazarev, in the second row Karo Zakharyan, Oleg Makarov, Petr Kolodin
Grigory Grechko, Grigor Gurzadyan, Alexey Leonov, …, Valery Kubasov.
Cosmonauts at the memorial in Tsitsernakaberd.
Classes at the Institute in Garni: cosmonauts Alexander Serebrov,
Sergei Krikalev, Viktor Afanasyev.
At the temple in Garni. From left to right: Georgy Grechko, Oleg Makarov,
Vasily Lazarev, Valery Kubasov, Pyotr Klimuk, Yuri Artyukhin.
Marat Krmoyan, cosmonaut Vladimir Lyakhov, Valery Abrahamyan, Garnik Yeghiazaryan
Vitaly Sevastyanov, Anatoly Solovyov, Ashot Zakharyan, Victor Afanasyev
Cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyov, Viktor Afanasyev and
Alexander Balandin during classes
Anatoly Soloviev, Alexander Balandin, Viktor Afanasyev,
CPC instructor, Vitaly Sevastyanov; the lesson is led by Alexander Kashin
ORION-1. Marat Krmoyan, cosmonaut Nikolay Rukavishnikov,
Eduard Arutyunyan, Shota Arutyunyan, cosmonaut Alexey Leonov,
methodologist, Alexander Kashin, Ashot Zakharyan.
Alexander Kashin, Vladimir Titov, Susanna Karapetyan,
Alexander Serebrov, Andrey Kashin
ORION-1. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, Ashot Zakharyan, cosmonaut Valery Kubasov.
ORION-1. Eduard Kazaryan, Shota Arutyunyan, cosmonaut Oleg Makarov,
Eduard Arutyunyan, Alexander Kashin, Ashot Zakharyan, Karo Zakharyan
ORION-1. Evgeny Saryan and cosmonauts Nikolai Rukavishnikov and
Valery Kubasov
ORION-2. Nikolay Petrosyan, Alexander Kashin and
cosmonaut Valentin Lebedev discuss the results of the flight.
ORION. Alexander Kashin, Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Norayr Arakelyan,
Ashot Zakharyan, Rafik Ayvazyan
Alexander Serebrov, Yuri Malyshev, Boris Popov, Marat Krmoyan
ORION-2.Cosmonaut Vasily Lazarev and Ashot Zakharyan
And so it was. Lebedev, Saryan, Valery Yazdovsky, Kashin
French cosmonaut Jean-Loup Chretien with Marat Krmoyan’s son
in Tsitsernakaberd.
ORION-2: Shota Harutyunyan, cosmonaut Anatoly Filipchenko, Areg Dzharakyan, cosmonaut Valery Kubasov
