Anatoly Solovyev

Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev
Cosmonaut
Nationality	Russian
Status	Retired
Born	(1948-01-16) January 16, 1948 Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
Other occupation	Test Pilot
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 (Russian: Анатолий Яковлевич Соловьёв; born January 16, 1948 in Riga – 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), 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.

External links

• Cosmonaut biographies, Gagarin Training Center
• NASA Biography