Vladislav Volkov, Russian engineer and astronaut (died 1971)

Vladislav Volkov

Soviet cosmonaut (1935–1971)

Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 missions. The second mission terminated fatally. Volkov and the two other crew members were asphyxiated on reentry, the only three people to have died in outer space.