Anatoly Solovyev

Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev
Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev
Born	January 16, 1948 (age 76); Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
Status	Retired
Nationality	Russian
Occupation	Test Pilot
	Space career
Cosmonaut
Rank	Colonel, Russian Air Force
Time in space	651d 00h 02m
Selection	1978 Intercosmos Group
Total EVAs	16
Total EVA time	82 hours, 22 minutes
Missions	Mir EP-2 (Soyuz TM-5 / Soyuz TM-4), Soyuz TM-9, Soyuz TM-15, STS-71, Mir, Soyuz TM-21, Soyuz TM-26
Mission insignia

Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev (Template:Lang-ru; born January 16, 1948 – alternate spelling "Solovyov") is a retired Russian and Soviet cosmonaut and pilot. Solovyev holds the world record on the number of spacewalks performed (16), and accumulated time spent spacewalking (over 82 hours).^[1]

Education

Graduated from the Lenin Komsomol Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School in 1972.

Family

Solovyev's parents are Yakov Mikhailovich Solovyev (father), deceased in 1980 and Antonia Pavlovna Soloveva, who resides in Riga. He is married to Natalya Vasilyevna Solovyeva (née Katyshevtseva), with whom he has two sons, Gennady (born 1975), and Illya (1980). Solovyev resides in Star City.

Awards and honors

Hero of the Soviet Union (USSR);
Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR (USSR);
Order For Merit to the Fatherland 2nd and 3rd classes;
Order of Lenin (USSR);
Order of the October Revolution (USSR);
Order of Friendship of Peoples (USSR);
Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration".

Foreign awards:

Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria;
Order of Georgi Dimitrov (Bulgaria);
Officer of the Legion of Honour (France);
Order of Stara Planina (Republic of Bulgaria);
two NASA Space Flight Medals.

References

^ Wade, Mark (2008). "Solovyev web page". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 25 December 2008. Retrieved January 12, 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

External links

[1] Wade, Mark (2008). "Solovyev web page". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 25 December 2008. Retrieved January 12, 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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