Vasily Lazarev, born February 23, 1928 in the Soviet Union, flew aboard Soyuz 12 and the flawed Soyuz 18a in April 1975.
The Soyuz 12, with Lazarev and Oleg Makarov, was the first manned mission after the trafic events of the Soyuz 11, when 3 cosmonauts perished when their capsule depressurized.
On April 5, 1975, Lazarev and Makarov launched in Soyuz 18a. Onlky minutes after take-off, the spacecraft suffered a high-altitude booster accident and the mission was aborted. The cosmonauts landed on a snow-covered slope and began sliding downhill until the parachutes, which opened correctly, snagged on vegetation, stopping their decent.
Lazarev never recovered completely from his injuries and did not go into space again. He passed away December 31, 1990 in Moscow.
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