Valeri Kubasov

Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov (Russian: Вале́рий Никола́евич Куба́сов; 7 January 1935 – 19 February 2014) was a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo–Soyuz mission), and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme. On 21 July 1975, the Soyuz 7K-TM module used for ASTP landed in Kazakhstan at 5:51 p.m. and Kubasov was the first to exit the craft. Kubasov performed the first welding experiments in space, along with Georgy Shonin.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

• Soyuz-U | Soyuz 36 — Commander · Success · May 26, 1980 · 18:20 UTC
• Soyuz-U | Soyuz 19 — Flight Engineer · Success · July 15, 1975
• Soyuz | Soyuz 6 — Flight Engineer · Success · October 11, 1969