Nationality Soviet
Russian Awards First space flight Soyuz T-5 Selection Air Force Group 5 Name Anatoly Berezovoy Extravehicular activities 1 | Total EVAs 1 Role Cosmonaut Other occupation Pilot Space missions Soyuz T-5 | |
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Born 11 April 1942
Enem, RSFSR, USSR ( 1942-04-11 ) Time in space 211 days 09 hours 04 minutes Died September 20, 2014, Moscow, Russia Rank Colonel, Soviet Air Forces | ||
Total EVA time 2 hours 33 minutes | ||
Anatoly Nikolayevich Berezovoy (Russian: Анато́лий Никола́евич Березово́й; 11 April 1942 – 20 September 2014) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
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Biography
Berezovoy was born in Enem, Adyghe Autonomous Oblast, Russian SFSR in a Ukrainian family. He was married with two children and graduated from the Air Force Academy.
On 27 April 1970 he was selected as a cosmonaut. In 1982 he flew as Commander on Soyuz T-5 on the first mission to the Salyut 7 space station, returning to Earth on the Soyuz T-7 after 211 days 9 hours. He retired on 31 October 1992 due to age. From 1992 to 1999, he was a Deputy President of Russian Space Federation.
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