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

USSR. Kazakh SSR. October 12, 1969. The crew of the Soyuz-7 spacecraft, spacecraft commander Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko, research engineer Viktor Vasilyevich Gorbatko and flight engineer Vladimir Nikolayevich Volkov (from left to right) during the transfer by bus to the launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome before the launch of Soyuz-7 under the program of the world's first group flight of three spacecraft Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8. Valentin Cheredintsev/TASS