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Viktor Savinykh

Viktor Petrovich Savinykh/Виктор Петрович Савиных
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Cosmonaut
Nationality Soviet / Russian
Born (1940-03-07) 7 March 1940 (age 77)
Berezkiny, Kirov Oblast, USSR
Other occupation
Flight engineer
Time in space
252d 17h 38m
Selection 1978 Intercosmos Group
Missions Soyuz T-4, Soyuz T-13, Mir EP-2 (Soyuz TM-5 / Soyuz TM-4)
Awards Hero of the Soviet Union Hero of the Soviet Union

Viktor Petrovich Savinykh was born in Berezkiny, Kirov Oblast, Russian SFSR on March 7, 1940. Married with one child. Selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. Retired on February 9, 1989.

Flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz T-4, Soyuz T-13 and Soyuz TM-5.

Has spent 252 days 17 hours 38 minutes in space.

In 2007, a monument at the Tsiolkovsky, Air and Space Museum, Kirov.

Honorary citizen of Kaluga, Perm, Kirov, Dzhezkazgan (Kazakhstan), Ulan Bator, Darkhan (Mongolia)

Honorary Citizen of the Kirov region.

In 2005, minor planet 6890, was named after Savinykh.


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