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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


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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).

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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.

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

    Anatoly Solovyev Wikipedia
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