Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov ( Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Волков Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Во́лков) (born May 27 1948 Horlivka Ukrainian SSR USSR) is a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian origins.At the age of 13 Volkov witnessed Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space and this inspired him to become a cosmonaut.