Ryumin, Valery Viktorovich

Born on August 16, 1939 in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the family of an employee. Russian.

After graduating from high school Zagoryansky number 1, he entered the Kaliningrad Mechanical Technical School in the Moscow region, the specialty cold metal processing . After graduating from the technical school in 1958, he continued his education, having entered the Faculty of Electronics and Computing-Decisive Engineering of the Moscow Forestry Institute , a diploma of which he received in 1966. Then he went to work at the Design Bureau-1 (“Design Bureau of S. P. Korolev”). He participated in the development of documentation for electrical tests of the manned spacecraft " 7K-L1 " for the flyby of the Moon . Repeatedly appointed as test manager and technical manager at the technical position. In 1972 he became a member of the CPSU.

In the Detachment of Soviet cosmonauts since 1973, where he underwent a full course of general space training, preparation for flights on spacecraft of the Soyuz type and orbital stations of the Salyut type.

He made three flights into space as a flight engineer.

The first one - October 9-11, 1977, together with the commander of the ship Vladimir Kovalenk on the Soyuz-25 ship, whose program included docking with the Salyut-6 OS and work on its board, but due to a malfunction of the space ship, the dock was canceled , the flight is stopped early.

February 25 - August 19, 1979 V.V. Ryumin together with the ship’s commander Vladimir Lyakhov made the second space flight on the Soyuz-32 spacecraft and the Salyut-6 orbital research complex Soyuz. At that time, it was the longest 175-day orbital flight, during which, on August 15, 1979, cosmonauts Ryumin and Lyakhov made an unplanned spacewalk , where they conducted a detachment of the satellite radio telescope KRT-10 that was hooked to the station structural elements. ship 1 hour 23 minutes. The return to Earth was carried out on board the Soyuz-34 spacecraft.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated August 19, 1979 for courage and heroism shown in flight, astronaut Ryumin Valery Viktorovich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 11429).

April 9 - October 11, 1980, Valery Rumin made the third flight at the Soyuz-35 spacecraft (commander - Leonid Popov ) and the Salyut-6 orbital research complex - Soyuz. It was another record for the duration of the flight - 185 days, during which the main crew of the OS received four visiting expeditions, including three international ones ; conducted a large amount of various studies, experiments, and repair work. At the end of the flight program, astronauts Popov and Ryumin returned to Earth on the Soyuz-37 spacecraft.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 11, 1980, Valery Ryumin was awarded the second Gold Star medal for the successful implementation of this flight.

From 1982 to 1989, V. V. Ryumin was the head of flights for products developed by the NPO Energia. These are the Salyut or Mir space stations, the Buran orbiter, the Soyuz manned spacecraft and the Progress cargo spacecraft. In 1986 he was appointed deputy general designer of NPO Energia and in the autumn of the same year he left the cosmonaut corps.

From 1994 to 1998, V. Ryumin was the program manager for the World-NASA and World-Shuttle programs on the part of Russia. In July 1997, by decision of the State Interdepartmental Commission (GMVK) in coordination with NASA, Soviet cosmonaut Valery Ryumin, who is on a well-deserved rest, was selected for flight on the shuttle under the STS-91 program. From September 5, 1997 to June 1998, he was trained at the Johnson Space Center in the United States on the crew of the space shuttle Discovery as a flight specialist.

The fourth flight into space, lasting 9 days 19 hours 55 minutes 1 second, V. V. Ryumin made from June 2 to June 12, 1998 as a mission specialist of the shuttle Discovery STS-91. The flight program included the 9th (and last) docking with the Mir orbital complex .

On the day of the completion of the fourth flight, reserve lieutenant colonel V. V. Ryumin is again a retired cosmonaut. Having accomplished this flight at the age of 58, he also became the oldest cosmonaut in Russia who went into orbit (before that, the national record for 13 years belonged to Georgy Grechko , and in 2013 this achievement was surpassed by Pavel Vinogradov ).

The wife of V. V. Ryumin is the pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation, the Hero of the Russian Federation Elena Vladimirovna Kondakova .

He was awarded three Orders of Lenin, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland of the 4th degree, medals. Hero of the Hungarian People's Republic, Hero of Labor of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Hero of the Republic of Cuba. Awarded a gold medal named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Honorary member of the International Academy of Astronautics.

A bronze bust of twice Hero of the Soviet Union V.V. Ryumin was installed in his homeland.

• Twice Hero of the Soviet Union ( August 19, 1979 , October 11, 1980 );
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree ( July 1, 1999 ) - for services to the state, high achievements in production activities and a great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between nations ^[1] ;
• three orders of Lenin (August 19, 1979, 1979, October 11, 1980);
• Gold Medal named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1981) ^[2]
• Medal "For merits in space exploration" ( April 12, 2011 ) - for great services in the field of exploration, exploration and use of outer space, many years of diligent work, and active public activity ^[3] ;
• Hero of the Hungarian People's Republic ;
• Hero of Labor of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ;
• Order of Ho Chi Minh ( Vietnam );
• Hero of Cuba ;
• Order of Playa Chiron ( Cuba );
• Order Dostyk 2 degrees ( Kazakhstan , 2001 ) ^[4] ;
• Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1980).

• Cosmonaut Valery Ryumin . Astronauts video encyclopedia. TV studio Roscosmos .
• The official site of the administration of Baikonur. Honorary citizens of the city .
• Ryumin, Valery Viktorovich (Rus.) . The site " Heroes of the country ."