Colonel Yuri Malyshev of the Soviet Air Force commanded Soyuz T-11, which carried India's Rakesh Sharma to Salyut 7 in April 1984.
Commander of Soyuz T-11
Colonel Yuri Malyshev commanded Soyuz T-11 when it left Baikonur on 3 April 1984. With him were flight engineer Gennady Strekalov and Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma of the Indian Air Force, the first Indian to orbit in space.
The crew docked with Salyut 7. Sharma's team carried out 43 experimental sessions on the Indo-Soviet programme, mainly in biomedicine and remote sensing, according to published accounts.
The three landed on 11 April, after 7 days, 21 hours and 40 minutes, in the descent module of Soyuz T-10. India conferred the Ashoka Chakra on all of them.
Soyuz T-2 and Star City
This was his second command. In June 1980 he commanded Soyuz T-2, from 5 to 9 June, a flight of 3 days, 22 hours and 19 minutes. His time in space came to 11 days, 19 hours and 59 minutes across the two missions.
Malyshev was born on 27 August 1941 at Nikolayevsk in the Stalingrad region. He served as a test cosmonaut and left that post on 20 July 1988. He died at Zvyozdny Gorodok, near Moscow, on 8 November 1999.
The Indian Ministry of Defence page spells him Yurie Vasilevich Malyshev and records the award under 1984.
What the citation recorded
Summary, not the official text: the archived official awards page lists Colonel Yurie Vasilevich Malyshev as an Ashoka Chakra recipient with the year 1984, but its citation field is empty. Published accounts link the award to his command of Soyuz T-11, the Indo-Soviet flight.
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