Anatoly Solovyev

Infobox Astronaut
name =Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev


type =Cosmonaut
status =Retired
nationality =Russian
date_birth =January 16, 1948
date_death =
place_birth =Riga, Latvia
place_death =
occupation =Test Pilot
rank =Colonel, Soviet Air Force
selection =1978 Intercosmos Group
time =651d 00h 02m
mission =Soyuz TM-5, Soyuz TM-4, Soyuz TM-9, Soyuz TM-15, STS-71, Mir, Soyuz TM-21, Soyuz TM-26
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Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev (Russian: Анатолий Яковлевич Соловьёв; born January 16, 1948, in Riga - alternate spelling "Solovyov") is a former Russian pilot, cosmonaut, and Colonel. Solovyev holds the world record on the number of spacewalks performed (16), and accumulated time spent spacewalking (over 82 hours).

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 (nee Katyshevtseva), with whom he has two sons, Gennady (born 1975), and Illya (1980). Solovyev resides in Star City.

Education

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

Awards and honors

Awarded the Order of Lenin and the "Gold Star" medal, the Order of the October Revolution, the Order of the Friendship of Peoples, and six Armed Forces medals.

Career

Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev served from 1972 to 1976 as a senior pilot and group commander in the Far Eastern Military District. Since August 1976, he has been a student-cosmonaut at the Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. In January 1979, he completed general space training. He is a test pilot third class and a test cosmonaut. From 1979 to 1984, he underwent training for a flight aboard the Soyuz-T transport vehicle and the Salyut 7 and Mir orbital stations as part of a group. In 1981, he was made part of a stand-by crew as a commander of a primary expedition. In 1987, he was the commander of a back-up Soviet-Syrian crew for an expedition that visited the Mir Station.

Solovyev's first spaceflight took place in 1988, lasted nine days and was performed as part of an international Soviet-Bulgarian crew composed of A.Y. Solovyev, B.P. Savinykh, and A. Aleksandrov, of Bulgaria. From February 11 to August 9, 1990, Colonel Solovyev accomplished a long-duration (179-day) flight aboard the station. He was the commander of the back-up Russian crew of the Mir-18 expedition on the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft as part of the Mir-Shuttle program. He currently holds the world record for time spent during spacewalks: 77+ hours over 16 separate outings.

Solovyev has brown hair and blue eyes, and is 5 feet 5 inches (165 cm) tall.

External links

* [http://gctc.ru/eng/biogr/default.htm Cosmonaut biographies, Gagarin Training Center]
* [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/solovyev.html NASA Biography]