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== Early life == Polyakov was born in [[Tula, Russia|Tula]] in the USSR on 27 April 1942. Born Valeri Ivanovich Korshunov, Polyakov legally changed his name after being adopted by his stepfather in 1957. He was educated at the Tula Secondary School No. 4, from which he graduated in 1959.<ref name=nmmuseum/> He enrolled in the [[First Moscow State Medical University|I. M. Sechenov 1st Moscow Medical Institute]], where he graduated with a doctoral degree. Afterwards, he enrolled in the [[Institute of Biomedical Problems|Institute of Medical and Biological Problems]], Ministry of Public Health, [[Moscow]], where he specialized in [[Aerospace medicine|astronautics medicine]]. Polyakov dedicated himself to the field of space medicine in 1964 after the flight of the first physician in space, [[Boris Yegorov]], aboard [[Voskhod 1]].<ref name=nmmuseum/>
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