Salyut 6 Intercosmos Soyuz -28, Soyuz 26 space cover.

The cover signed by Soyuz 26 crew members cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Georgy Grechko, and Soyuz 28 First Intercosmos Crew members cosmonauts Vladimir Remek and Aleksei Gubarev. Size 16 cm x 11 cm.

Excellent condition.

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Cosmonauts Biography:

Yuri Romanenko (1944-) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (March 16, 1978 and September 26, 1980). Over his career, Yuri Romanenko spent a total of 430 days 20 hours 21 minutes 30 seconds in space and 18 hours in space walks. In 1987, he was a resident of the Mir space station, launching on Soyuz TM-2 and landing aboard Soyuz TM-3. He remained on Mir for 326 days that was the longest stay in space at that time. His son, Roman Romanenko is also a cosmonaut, and has become the third second-generation space traveler on Soyuz TMA-15 in May 2009.

Georgy Grechko (1931-) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on several spaceflights among which Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26, and Soyuz T-14. Grechko graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Mechanics with a doctorate in mathematics. He was a member of Communist Party of Soviet Union. He went on to work at Sergei Korolev 's design bureau and from there was selected for cosmonaut training for the Soviet moon programme. When that program was cancelled, he went on to work on the Salyut space stations. Georgy Grechko made the first spacewalk in an Orlan space suit. This spacewalk was made on December 20, 1977 during the Salyut 6 EO-1 mission. He was awarded twice the medal of Hero of the Soviet Union. He resigned from the space program in 1992 to lecture in atmospheric physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences. A minor planet 3148 Grechko discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after him. 

Grechko, along with Alexey Leonov, Vitaly Sevastyanov and Rusty Schweickart established the Association of Space Explorers in 1984. Membership is open to all people who have flown in outer space.

Aleksei Gubarev (1931 2015) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two space flights Soyuz  17 and Soyuz 28.

Gubarev graduated from the Soviet Naval Aviation School in 1952 and went on to serve with the Soviet Air Force. He undertook further studies at the Gagarin Air Force Academy before being accepted into the space program.

He was originally trained for the Soviet lunar program and for military Soyuz flights before training for Salyut missions. His next mission, in 1978, was Soyuz 28, the first Interkosmos flight, where he was accompanied by Vladimir Remek from Czechoslovakia.

In 1971, he became backup commander for the ill-fated Soyuz -11 mission, which killed the three-man crew when the craft depressurized in space.

He resigned as a cosmonaut in 1981 and took up an administrative position at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. 

In the 1980s he worked at the 30th Ventral Scientific Research Institute, Ministry of Defense. His awards include the Gagarin Gold Medal, which was bestowed upon him twice. He was an honorary citizen of Kaluga, Arkalyk, Tselinograd and Prague.

Gubarev published a book, The Attraction of Weightlessness, in 1982.

Vladimír Remek (1948-) is a Czech politician and diplomat as well as a former cosmonaut and military pilot. He flew aboard Soyuz 28 from 2 to 10 March 1978, becoming the first and only Czechoslovak in space. As the first cosmonaut from a country other than USSR or USA, and with the entry of the Czech Republic and Slovakia into the European Union, Remek is considered to be the first astronaut from the European Union. Remek was a member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2013 for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia. From 2014 to 2018 he was Czech Ambassador to Russia.