Preparations for the group flight of the Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8 spacecraft at Baikonur

USSR. Kazakh SSR. October 11, 1969. The crew of the Soyuz-7 spacecraft, flight engineer Vladimir Nikolaevich Volkov, spacecraft commander Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko, research engineer Viktor Vasilyevich Gorbatko (from left to right) at the Kosmonavt Hotel during preparations for participation in the world's first group flight of three spacecraft, Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Valentin Cheredintsev/TASS