15 Facts About Igor Volk

Igor Petrovich Volk was a Russian test pilot and former Soviet cosmonaut in the Buran programme.

Igor Volk logged over 7000 flight hours in over 80 different aircraft types.

Igor Volk showed outstanding abilities in complex tests of various airplanes at critical angles of attack, stall, and spin.

Igor Volk was the first who tested aircraft behavior at high super-critical angles of attack and performed aerobatics such as the "cobra" maneuver.

Igor Volk was selected as a cosmonaut on 12 July 1977 and subsequently assigned to the Buran programme.

In July 1984, Igor Volk flew aboard Soyuz T-12, intended to give him some experience in space.

Igor Volk previously served as President of the National Aero Club of Russia and Vice President of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale.

Since April 1990, Igor Volk has been a member of the editorial board of the Wings of the Motherland magazine.

Igor Volk participated in the transcontinental flight Moscow - Canberra - Moscow on a Yak-18T aircraft.

In May 2016, Igor Volk supported the program of environmentalists in the elections and primaries of United Russia in the Moscow Oblast.

Igor Volk actively supported the environmental projects of the EkoGrad magazine.

Igor Volk supported a number of startups like four-person concept flying car, etc.

Igor Volk died on 3 January 2017 while on holiday in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Igor Volk is buried together with his daughter at the Bykovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Zhukovsky.

Bust of Igor Volk is installed at Solnechnaya Street in the city of Zhukovsky.