Preparation for the flight of the Soyuz-9 spacecraft crew

March-April 1970. USSR. Moscow Region. Star City. Crew members of the Soyuz-9 spacecraft, commander, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Andriyan Grigorievich Nikolaev (foreground) and flight engineer Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov (background) training in a spacecraft mockup during pre-flight preparation at the Yuri Gagarin Research and Testing Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS