"I am a simple Soviet man. I was born in a simple family, and I have grown up under the Soviet government."

"I want to dedicate this flight to the people of communism."

"Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!"

"When I was preparing for the flight, I had a very strange dream. I was flying in a small plane, and suddenly it turned into a rocket."

"The sky is very dark, and the Earth is a beautiful blue planet."