Autograph on the photo of cosmonaut Lazarev Vasily Grigoryevich.

Autograph on the photo of cosmonaut Lazarev Vasily Grigoryevich.
Size 12 x 9 cm. No defects.

[Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev (February 23, 1928, village of Poroshino, Kytmanovsky district, Altai Krai — December 31, 1990, Moscow) was a Soviet cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union (1973).

The first space flight was made in 1973 together with O. G. Makarov on the Soyuz-12 spacecraft. The launch was made at 13 hours 58 minutes world time on September 27, landing at 13 hours 14 minutes on September 29. The flight duration was 1 day, 23 hours, 15 minutes, 32 seconds. Vasily Grigoryevich was the commander of the crew on this flight, his call sign was "Ural-1".

During this flight, the modified Soyuz spacecraft and the Sokol rescue suits were tested in manned mode.

The second (suborbital) flight on April 5, 1975, in the same composition as the first (together with O. G. Makarov), lasting 21 minutes and 27 seconds, was suborbital due to the accident of the Soyuz launch vehicle. The maximum altitude of the flight was 192 km from the Earth's surface. In open sources, it is referred to as "Soyuz-18a". The astronauts were saved thanks to the work of the emergency rescue system. During the descent, the astronauts experienced a significant overload-about 26 g due to problems with the orientation of the lander. The capsule with the astronauts landed in the Altai Mountains on the slope of Mount Teremok-3 on the right bank of the Uba River (now the territory of Kazakhstan). The evacuation of the astronauts from the unplanned landing site was made only the next day.]