Honors
Vladislav Volkov was decorated twice as the Hero of the Soviet Union (first on October 22, 1969 and posthumously on June 30, 1971). He was also awarded the two Orders of Lenin and the title of Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR. The crater Volkov on the Moon is named in his honor. A street in Moscow is named after him.
Vladislav Volkov's ashes were inurned in the Kremlin Wall on the Red Square in Moscow.
In the movie Virus (1999), an alien intelligence inhabits the computer system of the research vessel "Akademic Vladislav Volkov" via a transmission from space. According to Brian Harvey's book Russia In Space, there was also a real Soviet communications ship called the Vladislav Volkov, but it was sold by the Russian government following the fall of the USSR.
The Cosmonaut Volkov variety of heirloom tomato is also named for him.
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