The Pilot-Cosmonaut Of The People’s Republic Of Bulgaria was awarded to Bulgarian Cosmonauts, the only two being Georgi Ivanov, 1979 and Aleksandar Panayotov Aleksandrov, 1988.
Major general Georgi Ivanov Kakalov (Георги Иванов Какалов; born July 2, 1940) is a former military officer who was the first Bulgarian cosmonaut. He was selected to participate in the Soviet International Space Program Interkosmos in 1978 and to follow the Soyuz spaceship training program.
Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov was the second Bulgarian to have flown to space. He launched aboard TM-5 as a Research Cosmonaut along with mission commander Anatoly Solovyev and Viktor Savinykh.
