The crew of the Soyuz-9 spacecraft (1970)

An airplane taking off.

Training of cosmonauts A.G. Nikolaev and V.I. Sevastyanov in conditions of artificially created weightlessness.

Measuring the blood pressure of one of the cosmonauts.

View of part of the earth's surface from space.

Newsreel from 1962: Nikolaev on board the spacecraft during a space flight.

View of Red Square during a festive demonstration (above).

Faces of the demonstration participants.

Participants in the world's first group space flight Nikolaev and P.R. Popovich on the tribune of the mausoleum. L.I. Brezhnev presents Nikolaev and Popovich with the Gold Star in the Kremlin, congratulates them on receiving their awards, view of the hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

The first female cosmonaut V.V. Tereshkova gets on the bus to be taken to the launch site in 1963. Wedding photographs of Nikolaev and Tereshkova.

Tereshkova is combing her daughter Lena's hair at home.

Nikolaev is sorting through his mail at his desk.

Nikolaev is putting his daughter on his lap.

Tereshkova and her daughter dance to music.

Cosmonaut Sevastyanov walks down the street.

View of a building on Kalininsky Prospekt.

Sevastyanov walks down the avenue.

Sevastyanov's wife Alevtina Ivanovna types on a typewriter.

Sevastyanov's daughter Natasha plays with soft toys.

Faces of Sevastyanov's wife and daughter.

Sevastyanov's wife types on a typewriter.

Views of Rostov the Great churches.

Sevastyanov and his wife film and photograph monuments of ancient Russian architecture.

Sevastyanov and Nikolaev during training in the cabin of a training spacecraft.

A lesson on navigation training.

Sevastyanov and Nikolaev leave the training center building.

Nikolaev takes a pre-flight exam on the structure of the spacecraft.

Sevastyanov during an exam.

Members of space crews listen to the results of their exams.

Sevastyanov and Nikolaev play tennis.

Nikolaev and Sevostyanov go fishing.

Nikolaev is cooking fish soup.

Sevastyanov is putting branches on the fire.

Nikolaev and Tereshkova with their daughter are leaving the entrance.

The cosmonauts are seeing Nikolaev and Sevastyanov off before their departure to the launch site.

Boarding the bus.

Sevastyanov, Nikolaev and their family members are in the bus.

Nikolaev and Sevastyanov say goodbye to their families and teammates at the plane's steps.

Nikolaev and Sevastyanov are climbing the plane's steps, their families are waving goodbye.

One of the plane's propellers is spinning.

The faces of the cosmonauts' families.

The plane is taking off.

The interior of the coordination and computing center, the center's employees at work.

The launch of the Soyuz-9 spacecraft.