Anatoly Solovyev

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Nationality Russian Total EVAs 16 First space flight Soyuz TM-4 Status Retired Extravehicular activities 16		Time in space 651d 00h 02m Name Anatoly Solovyev Other occupation Test pilot Selection 1978 Intercosmos Group Role Cosmonaut

Born January 16, 1948 (age 76) Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union ( 1948-01-16 ) Space missions Soyuz TM-9, Soyuz TM-26, Soyuz TM-4, Soyuz TM-5, Soyuz TM-21, Soyuz TM-15, Mir, STS-71 Rank Colonel, Russian Air Force Similar People Nikolai Budarin, Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov, Viktor Savinykh, Pavel Vinogradov, Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov
Total EVA time 82 hours, 22 minutes

Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev (Russian: Анатолий Яковлевич Соловьёв; 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).

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), Illya (1980). Solovyev resides in Star City.