Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Во́лков; born 27 May 1948) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut.

[1] At the age of 13, Volkov witnessed Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space and this inspired him to become a cosmonaut.

He joined the Soviet space programme and became a test pilot before realising his dream.

[3] On board the Mir space station, he controlled the docking procedures among other things.

At the time Volkov was orbiting Earth on Mir with Sergei K. Krikalev, "the last citizens of the USSR".