Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
Due to his continuing excellent performance he became in 1965 deputy chief of the Abteilung "Communications and Air Traffic Control" of the "1st Aero Club Cottbus". Because he excelled at this staff position as well, he was delegated to high-school study to the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy of the Soviet Union. Here he passed all examinations with excellence and graduated with a diploma in military science in 1961. Simultaneously he was awarded with the gold medal for the best graduate 1961 of the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy as the best foreign graduate.