Two Soyuz missions visited the station, each manned by two cosmonauts.

He flew as a Flight Engineer on the Soyuz 24 mission.

During the Soyuz 6 mission, Russian astronauts performed the first welding experiments in space.

He also served as backup for the Vostok 2 and Soyuz 8 missions.

Since 1965 Kamanin had eight cosmonauts in training for Soyuz missions.

It was the first visit to the station after the sudden termination of the Soyuz 21 mission in August.

"Those lost during the early Soyuz missions?"

TM-28 was a Soyuz mission to the Mir space station.

The same situation had happened during the Soyuz 5 mission in 1969.

In 2010 Russia announced that India no longer planned to do a Soyuz mission.