Anatoli Soloviyov
| Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev | |
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| Cosmonaut | |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Status | Retired |
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January 16, 1948 Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union |
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Other occupation
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Test Pilot |
| Rank | Colonel, Russian Air Force |
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Time in space
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651d 00h 02m |
| Selection | Air Force Group 6, 1976 |
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Total EVAs
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16 |
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Total EVA time
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82 hours, 21 minutes |
| Missions | Soyuz TM-5/Mir EP-2/Soyuz TM-4, Soyuz TM-9/Mir EO-6, Soyuz TM-15/Mir EO-12, STS-71/Mir EO-19/Soyuz TM-21, Soyuz TM-26/Mir EO-24 |
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Mission insignia
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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).
Enroled as a cadet in the Chernigov Higher Military School of Pilots in 1968. Joined the CPSU in 1971. Graduated from the Lenin Komsomol Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School in 1972, having flown the L-29, MiG-15UTI and MiG-21. Subsequently assigned to a reconnaissance air regiment in the Far East Aviation Division flying the MiG-21R. In 1975 he was awarded the qualification "Military Pilot 1st Class".
Selected for Cosmonaut training 23rd August 1976 as a member of TsPK-6. This group was to train as pilots for the Buran programme (Soviet "space shuttle"), and as such had to also qualify as test pilots. In addition he qualified as a parachutist and diver. In January 1979 he was appointed as a Test Cosmonaut in OK CPC (aerospace vehicles) working on Buran.
In January 1982 he was transferred to training for the Interkosmos programme. The following year he was designated as a reserve crew commander for missions to Salyut 7, with Aleksandr Serebrov and Nikolai Moskalenko. In 1985 he was assigned as reserve crew commander of Soyuz T-15 with Viktor Savinykh. The following year he was assigned as back up commander of the Soyuz TM-3 mission to Mir with Savinykh and Munir Habib (Syria).
Commander 9 day Mir EP-2 visiting ("lifeboat" swap) crew June 1988 launched aboard Soyuz TM-5 and returned aboard Soyuz TM-4. His crew were Viktor Savinykh and Aleksandr Aleksandrov (of Bulgaria). He thus became the 65th Soviet Cosmonaut with the personal callsign "Spring 1".
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