Georgi Katys was born on 31 August, 1926. Candidate of technical sciences degree from Baumer Technical high School, Moscow 1963. Engineer was selected as a cosmonaut on 28 May, 1964. And later chief of AN cosmonaut group. He was assigned as for Voskhod 1.
He was involved in the development of Lunokhod, the Soviet Moon Rover. Since 1984, Professor at Moscow Institute of technics. He is also a member of the Academy of Sciences and of the Academy of Cosmonautics.
