Soviet Cosmonaut Lt. Gen. Vladimir Shatalov, typed document signed, an honorary diploma awarded to Galina Ozerova, an employee of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, 1987.
Single page, large format at 13 ½" x 8 ¾". The artwork features the iconic portrait of Yuri Gagarin in his space suit helmet and space-themed artwork. The artwork at the bottom includes the phrase Звездный городок ("Star Town"), the name commonly used for the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in the suburbs of Moscow. The diploma was issued to Ozerova for organizing the work of women's committee on preparation and presentation of the Folk Art Exhibition at the ЦДС
Single page, large format at 13 ½" x 8 ¾". The artwork features the iconic portrait of Yuri Gagarin in his space suit helmet and space-themed artwork. The artwork at the bottom includes the phrase Звездный городок ("Star Town"), the name commonly used for the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in the suburbs of Moscow. The diploma was issued to Ozerova for organizing the work of women's committee on preparation and presentation of the Folk Art Exhibition at the ЦДСА (Russian abbreviation for "Central House of the Soviet Army") in honor of the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution. The diploma bears the seal of the Center, and is hand-signed by cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov, then Lieutenant General of Aviation and Chief of the Center.
In very good to excellent condition. Light wear to the edges and corners, minor wrinkles, a short rip to the top edge, closed and not easily noticeable, and slight discoloration along the right edge, probably from exposure to light. The wear is not too intrusive to the eye or detractive.
Vladimir Shatalov's space flight record includes the January 1969 flight on Soyuz-4 on a mission to couple with Soyuz-5; the October 1969 flight on Soyuz-8 jointly with cosmonaut A. Yeliseyev; and the flight on Soyuz-10 launched on Lenin's birthday 22 April 1971. From 1971 to 1986, Shatalov served as Deputy Chief Air Force Commander, Space. In 1987, he was appointed Chief of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center where he remained until his release from active duty in 1992. After John Glenn's death, Shatalov was the oldest of spacemen and the first among the Soviet and Russian cosmonauts who reached the age of ninety.
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