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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE Friday, Feb. 7, 1969 A Pag* S*v*n NOBILE BUFFET LUNCHEON IN GOLDEN DRAGON LOUNGE NION.-FRI., 11:30-3:00 $1.50 EA. When Downtown It's TRADER ENG'S HIBACHI STEAK HOUSE 300 West Peachtree (at Baker Street) Telephone 523—5322 PRIVATE PARTUS AND TAKE OUT S; 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- Elegant Dining ^dOWL ROOM Lounge West Paces Ferry Rd. at Northeast Expressway Open 5:00 pan. Doctors' Plot 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 Budget Rent-A-Car rents the G.M. cars you prefer, .all at Budget prices. 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