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{{Short description|Soviet cosmonaut (1927–2021)}}
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{{Infobox astronaut
| name          = Vladimir Shatalov
| native_name   = Владимир Шаталов
| native_name_lang = ru
| type          = Cosmonaut
| image         = Vladimir Shatalov.jpg
| caption       = Shatalov in 2011
| nationality   = {{flag|Soviet Union}} (formerly)<br>{{flag|Russia}}
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1927|12|8|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Petropavl]]ovsk, {{Interlanguage link|Akmolinsk Governorate|ru|Акмолинская губерния}}, [[Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic|Kazak ASSR]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]<br> (now [[Petropavl]], [[North Kazakhstan Region]], [[Kazakhstan]])
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|2021|6|15|1927|12|8|df=y}}
| death_place   = [[Moscow]], [[Russia]]<ref name=SF/>
| resting_place = [[Federal Military Memorial Cemetery]], [[Moscow Oblast]]
| occupation    = [[Aviator|Pilot]]
| rank          = [[Lieutenant General]], [[Soviet Air Force]]<br>[[File:CCCP air-force Rank general-lejtnant infobox.svg|60px]]
| selection     = [[List of astronauts by selection#1963|Air Force Group 2]] (1963)
| time          = 9d 21h 55m
| mission       = [[Soyuz 4]], [[Soyuz 8]], [[Soyuz 10]]
| insignia      = 
| awards        = {{{!}} style="background: transparent"
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{{!}}{{Order of Lenin}}{{!!}}{{Order of the October Revolution}}{{!!}}{{Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class}}{{!!}}{{Medal "For Battle Merit"}}
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{{!}}{{Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"}}{{!!}}{{Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"}}{{!!}}{{Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"}}{{!!}}{{Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"}}
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{{!}}{{Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"}}{{!!}}{{Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"}}{{!!}}{{Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"}}{{!!}}{{Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"}}
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{{!}}{{Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"}}{{!!}}{{Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"}}{{!!}}{{Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"}}{{!!}}{{Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Soviet Militia"}}
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{{!}}{{Medal "For Impeccable Service" 1st Class}}{{!!}}{{Medal "For Impeccable Service" 2nd Class}}
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''[[#Honours and awards|Several others (see below)]]''
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'''Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov''' ({{langx|ru|Владимир Александрович Шаталов}}; 8 December 1927 – 15 June 2021)<ref>{{cite news |title=Vladimir Shatalov, hero of Soviet cosmonauts, who beat the Americans to the first manned docking in space – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/06/15/vladimir-shatalov-hero-soviet-cosmonauts-beat-americans-first/ |website=The Telegraph |date=15 June 2021 |access-date=15 June 2021|last1=Obituaries |first1=Telegraph }}</ref> was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] who flew three [[Human spaceflight|space missions]] of the [[Soyuz programme]]: [[Soyuz 4]] (1969), [[Soyuz 8]] (1969), and [[Soyuz 10]] (1971).<ref name=SF>[http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/shatalov_vladimir.htm Spacefacts]. Spacefacts.de. Retrieved on 4 August 2012.</ref> From 1987 to 1991, he headed the [[Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center]]. [[Lieutenant General]], [[Soviet Air Force]] (1975).

==Early life==
Vladimir Shatalov was born on 8 December 1927 in [[Petropavl]]ovsk, {{Interlanguage link|Akmolinsk Governorate|ru|Акмолинская губерния}}, [[Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic|Kazak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]], [[Soviet Union|Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]] (now [[Petropavl]], [[North Kazakhstan Region]], [[Kazakhstan|Republic of Kazakhstan]]). His father, Aleksandr Borisovich Shatalov (1890–1970), was a [[Railway engineering|railway engineer]] and an early recipient of the [[Hero of Socialist Labour]]. His mother, Zoya Vladimirovna Shatalova ([[married and maiden names|''née'']] Nikolskaya; 1900–1980), was a [[housewife]]. 

In 1941, Shatalov graduated from the 6th Grade Secondary School No.4 in [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]]. During his school years, Shatalov was engaged in aircraft modeling in the [[Pioneers Palace]]. In 1941, he took part in the [[Siege of Leningrad|Defense of Leningrad]] for a month and a half, along with his father at the "Svyazrem-1" repair and restoration train. He helped to build the "Road of Life" across the frozen [[Lake Ladoga]]. This was the only route into the city during the bitter winters.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=22 June 2021|title=Vladimir Shatalov|work=The Times}}</ref> Shatalov went back to Petropavlovsk, where his family left for evacuation. In 1943, Shatalov graduated from the seven-year school in Petropavlovsk.<ref name="Шаталов Владимир Александрович">{{cite web|url=http://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=1252|title=Шаталов Владимир Александрович|website=Герой Страны|access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref>

== Early career ==
In early 1945, Shatalov graduated from the 6th Voronezh Air Force Special School, which he was evacuated to [[Karaganda]], followed by [[Lipetsk]]. In July 1945, Shatalov entered the 8th Military Aviation School for initial training of pilots. However, in August 1945, the school had closed. Shatalov continued his studies at the [[Kachinsk Military Aviation School]], which was situated in [[Michurinsk]], [[Tambov Oblast]] at the time. In 1949, Shatalov graduated from college with first category and became a [[pilot]]. From 7 September 1949, Shatalov served as an [[Flight instructor| instructor pilot]] and, from 14 June 1951, served as an instructor pilot in piloting techniques of the 706th Training Aviation Regiment of the Kachinsk MAS. From 12 December 1951, Shatalov served as an instructor pilot for the combat use of the 706th TAR.

In 1956, Shatalov graduated from the Command Faculty of the [[Gagarin Air Force Academy|Air Force Academy]]. From November 1956, Shatalov served as deputy squadron commander, then later — squadron commander, and from May 1960 — deputy commander of an aviation regiment in combat units of the Air Force. From February 1961, Shatalov served as a senior inspector-pilot of the combat training department of the [[5th Air Army|48th Air Army]] of the [[Odessa Military District]]. Shatalov was a master on multiple aircraft, mostly the [[Yakovlev|Yak]] and [[Mikoyan|MiG]] aircraft. The total flight time by the time of enrollment in the cosmonaut corps was more than 2,500 hours.

== Cosmonaut career ==
Shatalov had dreams of flying even higher, but was worried he may be too old to train as a cosmonaut. When Yuri Gargarin became the first man in space in April 1961, he was a full seven years younger. However, in 1962 Shatalov was asked to nominate the five best pilots under his command for consideration as cosmonauts, and put his own name forward at the top of the list. He passed the medical exam and then the interview in Moscow, which included Gargarin himself on the panel.<ref name=":0" /> By order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force No.14 on 10 January 1963, Shatalov was enrolled in the [[Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center|Cosmonaut Training Center]] as a listener-cosmonaut. From January 1963 to January 1965, Shatalov underwent general space training. He studied the systems, design and operating rules of the spacecraft [[Vostok (spacecraft)|Vostok 3A]], [[Voskhod (spacecraft)|Voskhod]], [[Voskhod 2]], and [[Soyuz (spacecraft)|Soyuz]]. On 13 January 1965, after passing the exams, Shatalov was qualified as an Air Force cosmonaut. On 23 January 1965, 
Shatalov was appointed cosmonaut of the 2nd Detachment (Military Space Programs).

Shatalov was in space three times. He made his first flight on 14 January 1969, on the [[Soyuz 4|Soyuz-4]] spacecraft. It was the first to carry out manual rendezvous and docking with [[Soyuz-5]]. With his participation, for the first time in the world, an experimental space station was created and the transition through open space of cosmonauts [[Aleksei Yeliseyev]] and [[Yevgeny Khrunov]] from the Soyuz-5 spacecraft to the Soyuz-4 was carried out.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.niasam.ru/v_strane/umer-dvazhdy-geroj-sovetskogo-soyuza-kosmonavt-vladimir-shatalov-175059.html|website=NIA Samara|title=Умер дважды Герой Советского Союза космонавт Владимир Шаталов|access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref><ref name="Умер космонавт Владимир Шаталов">{{cite web|url=https://www.roscosmos.ru/31478/|title=Умер космонавт Владимир Шаталов|website=Roscosmos|access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref> There was no internal connecting corridor between the two craft, and so the crew had to step into space using handrails on the craft in order to carry out the transition. For his part in this feat, he was made a Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded The Order of Lenin.<ref name=":0" />

==Later life==
From 25 June 1971, Shatalov served as Assistant to the Air Force Commander-in-Chief for Space Flight Preparation and Support (Deputy Air Force Commander for Space). From 1971 to 1991, Shatalov was a member of the State Commission on Manned Space Flights. On 28 April 1972, he defended his dissertation at the Gagarin Academy, and received the degree of candidate of technical sciences. In 1980, Shatalov was a consultant for the science fiction film ''[[Per Aspera Ad Astra (1981 film)|Per Aspera Ad Astra]]''. From 3 January 1987, to 19 September 1991, Shatalov served as the Commander of the Cosmonaut Training Center. By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 9 May 1992, Shatalov was transferred to the reserve on 21 May 1992.

Shatalov was married to Musa Andreyevna Ionova (* 1928), and together they had two children named Igor Vladimirovich Shatalov (* 1952) and Yelena Vladimirovna Shatalova (* 1958).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-061521a-cosmonaut-vladimir-shatalov-obituary.html|title=Cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov, who led 3 Soyuz missions, dies at 93
|website=collectSPACE|access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref>

Shatalov died on 15 June 2021 at age 93.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tass.com/science/1302777|title=Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov passes away aged 93|website=TASS News|access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref> His funeral took place on 17 June 2021, at the [[Federal Military Memorial Cemetery]] in [[Mytishchi]], [[Moscow Oblast]].<ref name="Умер космонавт Владимир Шаталов"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mskagency.ru/materials/3122935|title=Советского космонавта Владимира Шаталова похоронили на мемориальном кладбище в Мытищах|website=АГН «Москва»|date=17 June 2021 |access-date=24 June 2021}}</ref>

==Honours and awards==
*{{Hero of the Soviet Union}} Twice [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
**No.10713 — (22 January 1969) 
**No.85 — (22 October 1969) 
*{{Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class}} [[Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"]] 4th class (4 February 2000)
*{{Order of Friendship}} [[Order of Friendship]] (4 December 2011)
*{{Order of Lenin}} Three [[Order of Lenin|Orders of Lenin]]
**No.400926 — (22 January 1969, awarded to Heroes of the Soviet Union) 
**(30 April 1971) 
**(15 January 1976) 
*{{Order of the October Revolution}} [[Order of the October Revolution]] (27 December 1982)
*{{Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class}} [[Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR"]] 3rd class (22 February 1989) 
*{{Medal "For Battle Merit"}} [[Medal "For Battle Merit"]] (30 December 1952)
*{{Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"}} [[Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"]]
*{{Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"}} [[Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"]]
*{{Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"}} [[Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"]]
*{{Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"}} [[Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"]]
*{{Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"}} [[Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"]], (24 May 1982)
*{{Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"}} [[Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"]] (~1969)
*[[File:State Prize Soviet Union.JPG|20px]] [[USSR State Prize]] (1981)
*[[File:Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR.png|20px]] [[Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR]] (22 January 1969)
*{{Interlanguage link|Honored Master of Sports of the USSR|ru|Заслуженный мастер спорта СССР}} (21 October 1969)
*{{Interlanguage link|Honorary radio operator|ru|Почётный радист}} (1971)
*Honorary Metallurgist (14 July 1972)
*Honorary Surveyor (1988)
*Several commemoration awards

Foreign awards:
*[[File:AHLD.jpg|20px]] [[Hero of Labor (Vietnam)|Hero of Labor]] ([[Vietnam]], 1980)
*[[File:Ho Shi Min order rib.png|40px]] [[Order of Ho Chi Minh]] ([[Vietnam]], 1980)
*[[File:Ord friendship rib.PNG|40px]] {{ill|Order of Friendship of Peoples (Afghanistan){{!}}Order of Friendship of Peoples|ru|Орден «Дружба народов» (Афганистан)}} ([[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan]])
*[[File:Order «Madarskii vsadnik».png|40px]] {{ill|Order "Madara Horseman"|bg|Мадарски конник (орден)}} ([[Bulgaria]], 2008)
*[[File:100thAnniversaryOfLiberationRibbon.jpg|40px]] Medal "100 years of Bulgaria's Liberation from Ottoman Slavery" ([[People's Republic of Bulgaria]])
*[[File:Bulgaria-Brotherhood-Arms-Medal-ribbon.png|40px]] {{ill|Medal "For strengthening the brotherhood of arms"|ru|Медаль «За укрепление братства по оружию»}} ([[People's Republic of Bulgaria]], 1977)
*[[File:Medal for Strengthening Brotherhood in Arms 1 kl.png|40px]] {{ill|Medal "For strengthening friendship in arms"|ru|Медаль «За укрепление дружбы по оружию» (ЧССР)}} ([[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic]], 1980)
*[[File:Pasador Orden Playa Girón.gif|40px]] [[Order of Playa Girón]] ([[Cuba]], 1980)
*[[File:Order of Solidarity (Cuba) - ribbon bar.png|40px]] Order of Solidarity ([[Cuba]], 1983)
*[[File:Medalla XX Aniversario de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (cinta).svg|40px]] {{ill|20th Anniversary Commemorative Medal of the Revolutionary Armed Forces|es|Medalla Conmemorativa XX Aniversario de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias}} ([[Cuba]])
*[[File:Order of Karl Marx ribbon bar.png|40px]] [[Order of Karl Marx]] ([[East Germany]], 1977)
*[[File:GDR Scharnhorst-Order bar.png|40px]] [[Order of Scharnhorst]] ([[East Germany]], 11 September 1978)
*[[File:GDR Brotherhood in Arms Medal - Gold BAR.png|40px]] Gold [[Medal Brotherhood in Arms]] ([[East Germany]], 1978)
*[[File:Hu3ofl0.png|40px]] [[Order of the Flag of the People's Republic of Hungary]] ([[Hungarian People's Republic]], 1981)
*[[File:OrdenPolStar.png|40px]] [[Order of the Polar Star (Mongolia)|Order of the Polar Star]] ([[Mongolian People's Republic]], 1983)
*[[File:Med 60th anniversary of mongolian people's army rib.PNG|40px]] Medal "60 years of the Mongolian People's Army" ([[Mongolian People's Republic]], 1981)
*[[File:POL Odznaka Braterstwa Broni BAR.png|40px]] {{ill|Medal "Brotherhood in Arms"|pl|Odznaka Braterstwa Broni}} ([[Polish People's Republic]], 1977)
*[[File:Order of freendship (Syria).png|40px]] Order of freendship ([[Syria]])
*Several other awards<ref name="Шаталов Владимир Александрович"/>

A [[Shatalov (crater)|crater]] on the Moon was named after Shatalov.

Honorary citizen of the cities: [[Kaluga]], [[Kurgan, Kurgan Oblast|Kurgan]] (1969), [[Nalchik]] (Russia), [[Karaganda]], [[Petropavl]] (Kazakhstan), [[Prague]] (Czech Republic), [[Houston]] (USA).

==References==
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== Further reading ==
* J. K. Golovanov, "Korolev: Facts and myths", [[Nauka (publisher)|Nauka]], 1994, {{ISBN|5-02-000822-2}};
* «Rockets and people» - [[Boris Chertok|B. E. Chertok]], M: "mechanical engineering", 1999, - {{ISBN|5-217-02942-0}};
* "Bank of the Universe" - edited by Boltenko A. C., Kiev, 2014., publishing house "Phoenix", {{ISBN|978-966-136-169-9}}
*[http://www.baikonuradm.ru/index.php?mod=180 The official website of the city administration Baikonur - Honorary citizens of Baikonur]

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