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Makarov was born in Udomlja (Tverskaya Oblast) near Moscow in the Soviet Union. He graduated from Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School in 1957, and started working at the Special Design Bureau Number One (which is now RSC Energia) as an engineer, working on the Vostok spacecraft. In 1966 he was selected for cosmonaut training.

At first he did work on the Soviet lunar program, and was training with Aleksei Leonov for a circumlunar flight. However after the success of Apollo 8 the flight was cancelled.

His first spaceflight was Soyuz 12Soyuz 12 was the test flight of the newly-redesigned Soyuz spacecraft that was intended to provide greater crew safety in the wake of the Soyuz 11 tragedy. The crew capacity of the capsule had been decreased from three to two cosmonauts to allow for space in 1973Events January events January 1 United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community now known as the European Union January 3 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led, a test flight to check the changes made to the Soyuz spacecraftSoyuz union is a series of spacecraft designed by Sergey Korolev for the Soviet Union's space program. The Soyuz spacecraft succeeded the Voskhod design and were originally built as part of the Luna program. The spacecraft are launched by the Soyuz launch after the Soyuz 11Soyuz 11 succeeded in completing the mission that Soyuz 10 had failed at carrying cosmonauts to live on the world's first space station, Salyut 1. Cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev, and Vladislav Volkov spent three weeks testing the Salyut's disaster. His second flight was Soyuz 18aSoyuz 18 Mission Statistics Mission Name Soyuz 18 Call Sign (Ural "Ural") Number of Crew Members 2 Launch April 5, 197511:04:54 UTC Baikonur Landing April 5, 197511:26:21 UTC Altai mountains Duration 21 min, 27 s Number of Orbits None Soyuz 18 was a Soyuz, aborted shortly after launch with an emergency landing in north-west ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute. With his third launch on Soyuz 27Crew Launched: Oleg Makarov (3) Vladimir Dzhanibekov (1) Landed: Yuri Romanenko (1) Georgi Grechko (2) Mission Parameters Mass 6800 kg Perigee 198. 9 km Apogee 253. 8 km Inclination 51. 65° Period 88. 73 minutes Salyut 6 EP-1 was the second successful mis he flew to space station Salyut 6Salyut 6 was launched on September 29, 1977. Although it resembled the previous Salyut space stations in overall design, it featured several revolutionary advances including a second docking port where a unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft could dock and r, and landed 5 days later with the Soyuz 26 spacecraft. His last mission was Soyuz T-3, during which several repairs on Salyut 6 were done. He was also in backup crews for the flight Soyuz 17 and Soyuz T-2. Altogether he spent 20 days 17 hours 44 minutes in space.

After his final spaceflight he continued to work for Energia, both in the Mir space station program as well as the Energia- Buran development.

Among other decorations he received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union twice, and the Order of Lenin four times.

He died in 2003 from a heart attack.