Vladimir Djanibekov

Vladimir Alexandrovitch Djanibekov (in Russian: ВладимирАлександровичДжанибеков ) is a Soviet Cosmonaute born the May 13rd 1942.

Biography

Vladimir Alexandrovitch Djanibekov is also major-general of aviation, twice Héros of the USSR.

In 1960 it finishes the military academy of Tachkent and in 1965 - the higher military academy of aviation of Eïsk, Russia. It controlled 13 types of planes with on the whole nearly 2000 hours of vol.

It belongs to the team of the cosmonauts as from 1970 and accomplished 5 cosmic flights:

Vladimir Djanibekov speaks about itself as follows: “Most of my life I live the planet Ground, but all my life I dreamed of the sky, the peregrinations, the flights towards remote worlds”.

Besides its occupation of cosmonaut, in his sphere of interests are: radiotechnology, astronomy, ecology, new types of energy, flights in the montgolfiers, music, poetry, literature and, of course, passion for graphic arts.

Its first lessons of drawing, composition and Volodia painting had them at the military academy and the Museum of Arts, where all the pupils spent their spare time. At the university of aviation and, then, in the team of the Vladimir cosmonauts proved like an essential draftsman. Its leisures passed in design various diagrams and edition of humorous newspapers.

His/her friends painters: Guerman Komlev, Vladimir Medvedev, Taïr Salakhov; and also his/her friends sculptors: Yakov Shapiro, Vitaly Lévin - had a great influence on the work of the cosmonaut. The realization of the miniatures was the first work in common with Guerman Komlev. Thanks to their drafts, the Ministry for the Communications published in the years 1980 fifteen stamps, envelopes and blocks of stamps commemorative dedicated to the significant events of the history of the space conquest.

The main themes of the work of Vladimir Djanibekov are: “The Man, Earth, Cosmos”, with all the vastness of the interior world of the man out of the commun run, its thoughts, its feelings, its imaginations, its reflections philosophical. One believes all to recognize because all is real and, at the same time, all has a deep sense and mysterious, from where the impression that Vladimir feels and sees what we do not know.

Vladimir works in the marvellous tradition of the realistic school: all is with the service of the picturesque expression of the feelings and the thoughts of the painter.

Its works are in museums in Russia, in the United States, in Germany, in Ouzbékistan, of which some were exposed to the four corners of the world.

Flights carried out

Vladimir Djanibekov was commander on 5 flights Soyuz .

January 10th 1978: Soyuz 27
March 22nd 1981: Soyuz 39
June 24th 1982: Soyuz T-6
July 17th 1984: Soyuz T-12
June 6th 1985: Soyuz T-13 (more than 112 days)

External bonds

(Fr) a precise summary of the accomplished flights

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