The spaceflight crewmembers—Vladimir Shatalov, Boris Volynov, Yevgeny Khrunov, and Aleksei Yeliseyev—had returned only a week earlier from their historic manned-ship-to-manned-ship docking mission in space, the first of its kind.
Yevgeny Kafelnikov | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | Yevgeny Khrunov | Yevgeny Nesterenko | Yevgeny Dementyev | Yevgeny Brusilovsky | Yevgeny Bezruchenko | Yevgeny Zavoisky | Yevgeny Zamyatin | Yevgeny Yasin | Yevgeny Tolstikov | Yevgeny Shaposhnikov | Yevgeny Semyonovich Kuznetsov | Yevgeny Rein | Yevgeny Primakov | Yevgeny Pepelyaev | Yevgeny Miller | Yevgeny Malinin | Yevgeny Kychanov | Yevgeny Krinov | Yevgeny Dragunov | Yevgeny Chichvarkin | Yevgeny Burachyok | Yevgeny Akulov |
Viktor Gorbatko and Yevgeny Khrunov had been with the program since 1960 but had not flown into space, while Anatoli Voronov and Pyotr Kolodin also had no space experience and had been with the program since 1963.