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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, Feb. 7, 1969
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Russia’s Jewish Cosmonaut
ber since 1958.
Lt. Col. Volynov and his wife
Tamara have two children, Tan
ya and Andrei.
From London Jewish Chronicle Special Correspondent
On East European Affairs
Lieutenant-Colonel Boris Voly
nov, the 34-year-old comman
der of the Soviet spaceship
Soyuz-5, which was involved in
the recent first link-up in space,
is a Jew.
It was undoubtedly the fact
that the Soviet authorities would
have had to give his nationality
as it appears in his identity
papessv*^Jew”—which led them,
thretlfcionths ago, to reverse their
npfPtice of announcing the na-
yTionality of cosmonauts engaged
' in space exploration.
V Tije official Tass version of
Bkmtenant-Co 1 o n e 1 Volynov’s
origins said that, after being left
without a father (his parents
were divorced when he was a
child), he was educated by his
mother, Evgenia Izrailovna, a
physician by profession, now
pensioned,- who was awarded the
title of “Merited Doctor of the
Russian Republic.”
Even if Lieutenant-Colonel
Volynov’s father were a non-
Jewish Russian, the son would
still be Jewish under Sovidt (and
Jewish) law. The Soviet regula
tion which introduced identity
papers in 1932 stated that a new
born child must be registered ac
cording to the nationality of his
mother.
An administrative amendment,
introduced in 19C4, allowed chil
dren on reaching the age of 16
(when they receive their own
identity papers) to opt for the
nationality of either parent if they
are the offspring of a mixed mar
riage. But this legislation was not
made retroactive and Volynov,
even had he wanted, could not
have benefited from it had his
father been a Russian.
press where the parents of cos
monauts do not use their sons’
achievements to make declama
tory speeches in the official man
ner. Mrs. Volynov’s comment
was: “Although I believe In our
techniques, I still worry. You
must understand, I am a mo
ther.”
In contrast with the efforts to
avoid mentioning her name, the
biographies and pictures of the
families of other cosmonauts ap
pear in great detail in the press.
Volynov is one of the longest-
serving Soviet spacemen. He
began training nine years ago,
and is the only man who has
twice served as a “reserve” for a
space mission without being call
ed upon. Men who started their
training only three years ago
have been sent up.
It is not improbable that the
pressure to compete with the
Americans in the space race
forced the Soviet authorities to
abandon their inhibitions and put
up a Jewish spaceman.
Another Jew?
There is reason to believe that
Georgi Beregovoy, one of the cos
monauts who undertook a space
mission three- months ago, is also
Jewish.
From the names and patrony
mics of both Volynov’s and Ber
egovoy’s wives, it would appear
that they, too, are of Jewish
origin.
Volynov was born in Irkutsk
(Siberia) in 1934.' He graduated
from the pilot’s school in Volgo
grad (Stalingrad) in 1956. He is
also a graduate of the Soviet Air
Force Academy of Aviation En
gineering and a Communist mem-
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The Soviet cosmonaut must
have had other reminders of his
Jewishness. It is more than like
ly that his mother, like other
Jewish doctors, must have been
the object of suspicion and ha
rassment during the height of the
Stalinist “doctors’ plot” provoca
tion.
Furthermore, any Jew in Rus
sia whose patronymic was Izrail
evich or Izrailovna (i.e., Israel)
was subject in the ’50s to taunts
under the stimulus of Soviet
propaganda. This reached
peak during the 1956 Sinai cam
paign, when people with these
names were spoken of as “Agres-
sorovich” or “Agressorovna,” in
line with the Russian charge that
Israel was the aggressor.
In contrast with the reporting
of past Soviet space achieve
ments, when the nationality of
the cosmonauts provided an op
portunity foV lauding Soviet
progress in dealing with the na
tionalities problem, Soviet pub
lications are going out of their
way not to project Volynov’s
origins.
A feature in “Komsomolskaya
Pravda,” devoted entirely to Vol
ynov’s mother, avoids mention
ing her name in any form and
refers to her simply and repeat
edly as “Volynov’s mother.”
She herself provides one of the
few interviews in the Soviet
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