“He was my space brother,” she said in an interview with Tass.

Earlier it was reported that the cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, died in the 85th year of his life.

Farewell to Bykovsky will be held March 29 at 12 o'clock in the House of Astronauts in Star City.

Hero of Russia cosmonaut Sergei Volkov commented in a conversation with RT the death of Valery Bykovsky.