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cosmos-walter
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posted 03-30-2017 04:25 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cosmos-walter   Click Here to Email cosmos-walter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Does anybody know the signature in the upper left corner?

ColinBurgess
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posted 03-30-2017 04:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It's definitely not one of the early Vostok/Voskhod/Soyuz cosmonauts, and not one that I recognise.

Ken Havekotte
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posted 03-30-2017 06:17 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ken Havekotte   Click Here to Email Ken Havekotte     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
All look to be early/vintage signatures of those known cosmonauts included. But there appears to be a date written underneath the unknown autograph "2-11-?," but I can't make out the last number of it or so. Maybe a cosmonaut trainee or space program official of some kind, but highly unlikely to be a rookie cosmonaut not flown yet.

cosmos-walter
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posted 03-30-2017 11:09 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cosmos-walter   Click Here to Email cosmos-walter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Colin and Ken, thank you for your opinions.

The date next to two signatures reads 02.11.1968. Georgi Beregovoy landed with Soyuz 3 on 30.10.1968. Thus it might be return to Star City or debriefing after this mission.

Could the unknown signature be Vasili Mishin who succeeded Sergey Korolev as head of the construction bureau?

ColinBurgess
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posted 03-30-2017 04:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I can only add that the first letter of the name resembles an English capital B, which is V in Russian - and presumably his first name, so you may possibly be correct.

SpaceSteve
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posted 03-30-2017 04:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SpaceSteve   Click Here to Email SpaceSteve     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You could be correct on it being Mishin. I just went through some of Mishin's diaries (transcriptions), that he evidently consigned to Sotheby's Auctions in 1993. If you go here (Volume 3 of his diaries), and then to page 192 of the diary, you'll notice some writing, including what appears to be a match at the bottom.

Here's another website that talks a bit about them, and it has a link to the diary transcriptions.

Daniel Lazecky
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posted 03-30-2017 04:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Daniel Lazecky   Click Here to Email Daniel Lazecky     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Oh yes you are right, it's autograph Mishin. Here, the evidence also my collection!

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