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Vitali Ivanovich Sevastyanov, cyrillic
Виталий
Иванови&
#1095;
Севасть&
#1103;нов, (born July 8, 1935 in
Krasnouralsk) was a Soviet Union|Soviet
astronaut|cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 9 and
Soyuz 18 missions.

He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Aviation
Institute and after graduation in 1959, joined
Sergey Korolev's design bureau, where he worked on
the design of the Vostok spacecraft|Vostok
spacecraft. He also lectured at the Gagarin
Cosmonaut Training Centre|Cosmonaut Training
Centre, teaching the physics of spaceflight. In
1967 he commenced cosmonaut training himself.

After two successful missions, including a
two-month stay on the Salyut 4 space station, he
was stood down from active flight status in 1976.
He worked in ground control for the Salyut 6
station before returning to spacecraft design in
the 1980s to work on the Buran project.

In 1993, he left the space programme and was
elected to the Duma in 1994.