Soyuz LV - Credit: © Mark Wade. 1,483 bytes. 71 x 353 pixels.

Version of Soyuz launcher with increased payload, designed to launch Soyuz R military reconnaisance satellite. Cancelled along with the Soyuz R project in 1966. Unknown differences to standard Soyuz to reach payload requirement of circa 6700 kg to 65 degree orbit.

LEO Payload: 6,700 kg. to: 200 km Orbit. at: 65.0 degrees.

• Development of Soyuz-R and Soyuz-P begun. Spacecraft: Soyuz R, Soyuz P, Soyuz PPK, Soyuz 7K-TK.

  KB Kozlov began active development of the military applied versions of the Soyuz. A new version of the R-7 launch vehicle, the 11A514, was put into development to support launch of the Soyuz-P, now designated the 7K-PPK (pilotiruemovo korablya-perekhvatchika, manned interceptor spacecraft). The Soyuz-R would include the small orbital station 11F71 with photo-reconnaissance and ELINT equipment. To dock with the 11F71 station Kuibishev developed the transport spacecraft 11F72 7K-TK. This version of the Soyuz was equipped with rendezvous, docking, and transition equipment, including an airlock, that allowed the two cosmonauts to enter the station without using EVA. The launch vehicle for the 7K-TK would be the 11A511, known today as the Soyuz.

• 121 - Lantratov, K., Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "'Zvezda' Dmitriya Kozlova", 1997, Issues 3 to 6 (four part article).