Leonov Oleksii Arkhypovych

Pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.

In 1953-1955, he studied at the Kremenchuk Military Aviation School for Initial Pilot Training (now Kremenchuk Flight College).

He was born on 30 May 1934 in the village of Lystvianka, Tysulsky district, Kemerovo oblast.

On 18-19 March 1965, together with Pavlo Beliaev, he flew into space as a co-pilot on the Voskhod-2 spacecraft. During this flight, Leonov made the first spacewalk in the history of cosmonautics, lasting 12 minutes and 9 seconds.

Aksionov Volodymyr Victorovych

Pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, flight engineer of the Soyuz-22 and Soyuz T-2 spacecraft; twice Hero of the Soviet Union.

He was born on 1 February 1935 in the village of Hyblytsi, Kasymov district, Ryazan oblast.

He studied at the Military Aviation School of Primary Training and the Chuhuiv Military Aviation School of Pilots (now Kremenchuk Flight College).

He twice flew in space on Soyuz-22 and Soyuz T-2 spacecraft.

Klymuk Petro Illich

(was born 10 July 1942, village Tomashivka, Reich Commissariat Ukraine, now Berestia district, Berestia oblast, Belarus) - Ukrainian Soviet pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1973, 1975), USSR pilot-cosmonaut (No. 26), Colonel-General of Aviation.

In 1959, he entered the school of initial training for pilots in Kremenchuk (now Kremenchuk Flight College). However, in 1960, the school was disbanded and reformatted into a school for training civilian pilots, and P. Klymuk was moved to the Chernihiv Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots. In 1964, he graduated with honours.

He made three space flights as a crew commander.

Levchenko Anatolii Semenovych

He was born on 21 May 1941 in the Ukrainian village of Osnovyntsi, Krasnokutsk district, Kharkiv oblast.

In 1959, Levchenko became a cadet at the Kremenchuk Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots. However, in the same year, the school was disbanded, and the future cosmonaut was moved to the Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots in Chernihiv, from which he graduated in 1964. Levchenko studied there together with Petro Klymuk, who was another future cosmonaut and twice Hero of the Soviet Union.

Anatolii Levchenko made his first and last space flight in his life from 21 to 29 December 1987 as a research cosmonaut on the Soyuz TM-4 spacecraft.