Klimuk, Pyotr Ilyich

Born in the village of Komarovka, Brest region, Brest region of the Belorussian SSR (now the Republic of Belarus).

The first years of life passed in the occupation. He spent his childhood and school years in his native village.

In 1959 he graduated from high school and enrolled in the Kremenchug school of primary training for pilots, and then became a cadet at the Chernigov Higher Military School for Pilots named after the Lenin Komsomol . In 1964 he graduated with honors. Then he served in the aviation units of the Soviet Army. Member of the CPSU since 1963.

Enrolled in the cosmonaut corps in 1965 . He completed a full course of general space training and preparation for space flights on Soyuz-type ships and Salyut-type orbital stations. He made three space flights as a crew commander. The first space flight took place from December 18 to 26, 1973, together with flight engineer VV Lebedev on the Soyuz-13 spacecraft. The flight duration was 7 days 20 hours 55 minutes 35 seconds.

In January 1975, he was a member of the reserve crew of the Soyuz-17 spacecraft. In April 1975, he was a backup for the commander of the ship during the unsuccessful launch of the Soyuz-18-1 ship. He made his second space flight from May 24 to July 26, 1975, together with flight engineer V. I. Sevastyanov, on the Soyuz-18-2 spacecraft to the Salyut-4 orbital station. The duration of the stay in space was 62 days 23 hours 20 minutes 8 seconds. In the future, I was preparing for flights under the Intercosmos program.

He made his third space flight from June 27 to July 5, 1978, as the commander of an international crew together with research astronaut, citizen of the People’s Republic of Poland M. Germaszewski on the Soyuz-30 spacecraft to the Salyut-6 orbital station for joint work with her crew - V.V. Kovalenok and A.S. Ivanchenko . The duration of the stay in space was 7 days 22 hours 2 minutes 59 seconds.

In just 3 flights, 78 days 18 hours 18 minutes 42 seconds flew into space.

From March 30, 1976, he was the deputy commander of the CPC cosmonaut group for political affairs, and from January 24, 1978, he was the deputy head of the CPC and head of the political department of the Center. On April 3, 1991, in connection with the dissolution of political agencies in the army, he was transferred to the post of head of the military-political department, deputy head of the CPC. From September 12, 1991 to September 2003 - Head of the Cosmonaut Training Center named after Yu. A. Gagarin.

Candidate of Technical Sciences (1995). Full member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky , academician of the International Academy of Informatics, corresponding member of the International Academy of Astronautics ^[3] .

• Member of the Supreme Council of the USSR of the 10th convocation .
• People's Deputy of the USSR (1989-1991).

• Lieutenant (10.26.1964).
• Senior lieutenant (03/10/1967).
• Captain (12/25/1968).
• Major (07/30/1971).
• Lieutenant Colonel (12.28.1973).
• Colonel (07.26.1975).
• Major General of Aviation (07/07/1978)
• Lieutenant General of Aviation (07/08/1992)
• Major General of Aviation (02/23/1998)

• Twice Hero of the Soviet Union ( December 28, 1973 , July 27, 1975 ).
• The Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the III degree (2.03.2000) - for great services to the state in the development of domestic manned space exploration ^[4] .
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree (04/09/1996).
• Three Orders of Lenin (12/28/1973, 07/27/1975, 07/05/1978).
• Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III degree (02.17.1984).
• Medal "For Merits in Space Exploration" ( April 12, 2011) - for great merits in the field of research, development and use of outer space, many years of conscientious work, and active social activity ^[5] .
• The Order "For Service to the Motherland", II degree ( Belarus , July 15, 2002 ) - for services to the development and strengthening of scientific, technical and military cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation ^[6] .
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (Belarus, July 16, 2007 ) - for a significant personal contribution to strengthening friendly relations and cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation ^[7] .
• Order of the “Grunwald Cross” I degree ( Poland , 1978).
• Order of Nobility ( Kazakhstan , 1995).
• Order of the Legion of Honor II degree ( France , 2004).
• Two medals "Brotherhood in Arms" ( NDP ).
• Medal "For Strengthening Friendship in Arms" I degree ( Czechoslovakia ).
• Medal "100th anniversary of the fall of the Ottoman yoke" ( NRB ).
• Medal "From the grateful Afghan people" ( 1988 ).
• USSR State Prize ( 1978 ) - for a cycle of work on the medical justification and implementation of a set of methods and means of preventing the adverse effects of weightlessness on the human body, which made it possible to carry out long-term manned space flights.
• Lenin Komsomol Prize (1978) - for the script of the documentary film "Normal Space".
• Sign of St. Sergius of Radonezh (2017) ^[8] .
• In 2013, he became an Honorary Citizen of Kremenchug .
• Honorary Citizen of Chernigov ^[9]

• Mother - Marfa Pavlovna (1912–1993), collective farmer.
• Father - Ilya Fedorovich (1909–1944), before the Great Patriotic War, deputy chairman of the Soviet Border Guard collective farm; since June 1941, in partisans, in 1944, after the liberation of Belarus, he went to the front, died in 1944 during the liberation of Radom (Poland).
• Stepfather - Mikhail Vasilyevich Morozov (1914-1988), locksmith on the railway.
• Sister - Lushchay (Klimuk) Antonina Ilinichna (born 1933), former head teacher of the forest health school.
• Sister - Zhitenets (Klimuk) Nina Ilyinichna ^[10] , (born 1935), a former railway worker.
• Wife - Klimuk (Terentyeva) Lilia Vladimirovna, (b. 1941), a former pharmacist in the CPC them. Yu.A. Gagarin.
• Son - Colonel Klimuk Mikhail Petrovich, Defense Attache, Air Force Attache of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Belgium, then Great Britain (as of August 2012) ^[11] .
• Grandchildren - Klimuk Sergey Mikhailovich and Klimuk Andrey Mikhailovich.

• Gіl, M. Existent in the heat of the day ...: Apovets at the apavadannah of the great Soviet pilot-kasmanўt of the USSR, the duel of the Hero of Savetskag Sayuz P. І. Klimuka / M. Gіl. - Minsk: Yunatstva, 1983 .-- 112 s.
• Klimuk P. Zora - a pobach. The book of the Adnago Palette / P. Klimuk. - Minsk: Mastatsky Literature, 1977 .-- 316 p.
• Klimuk P.I. Near the Stars: A Book of One Flight. - M .: Young Guard , 1979. - 224, [32] p. - (People and space). - 100,000 copies.
• Peter Klimuk: Photoalbum / Phot. V. I. Zhdanovich [et al.]; Auth. text by M. Gil]. - Minsk: Belarus, 1981. - 32 p.

• List of Heroes of the Soviet Union (Belarus) .
• Soyuz-13 .
• Soyuz-18 .
• Soyuz-30 .
• Salute-4 .

• I. A. Marinin, S. Kh. Shamsutdinov, A. V. Glushko (compilers). Soviet and Russian astronauts. 1960-2000 / Edited by Yu. M. Baturin . - M .: LLC Information and Publishing House "Cosmonautics News", 2001. - ISBN 5-93345-003-0 .

• Klimuk, Pyotr Ilyich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• On Cosmonautics Day - to the homeland of Peter Klimuk .
• Cosmonautics Museum in the village of Tomashovka .
• The newspaper of 7 days is the memoirs of Valentina Alekseevna Klochkova.
• Short biography .
• Cosmonaut Peter Klimuk . Video Encyclopedia "Cosmonauts". Roscosmos television studio .
• Official site of the administration of Baikonur. Honorary citizens of the city.