Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev

Cosmonaut
Nationality:	Soviet / Russian
Date of birth:	January 16, 1948
Place of birth:	Riga, Latvia
Previous Occupation:	Test Pilot
Rank:	Colonel, Soviet Air Force
Time Spent in Space:	651d 00h 02m
Selection:	1978 Intercosmos Group
Mission(s):	Soyuz TM-5, Soyuz TM-9, Soyuz TM-15, STS-71, Soyuz TM-26
Mission Insignia:

Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev (Russian: Анатолий Яковлевич Соловьёв; born January 16, 1948, in Riga) is a former Russian pilot, cosmonaut, and Colonel. He resides in Star City. His 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). State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Soviet republics Area  - Total  - % water 1st before collapse 22,402,200 km² Approx. ... January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Riga (Latvian: RÄ«ga), the capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the River Daugava, at . ... Test pilots work on developing, evaluating and proving experimental aircraft. ... Colonel is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with the corresponding ranks existing in nearly every country in the world. ... The Soviet Air Force, also known under the abbreviation VVS, transliterated from Russian: ВВС, Военно-воздушные силы (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily), formed the official designation of the airforce of the Soviet Union. ... 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 1958 June 25... Crew Launched: Anatoly Solovyev (1) Viktor Savinykh (1) Aleksandr Panayatov Aleksandrov (1) - Bulgaria Landed: Vladimir Lyakhov (3) Abdul Ahad Mohmand (1) - Afghanistan Mission Parameters Mass: 7000 kg Perigee: 173 km Apogee: 241 km Inclination: 51. ... Crew Anatoly Solovyev (2) Aleksandr Balandin (1) Mission parameters Mass: 7150 kg Perigee: 373 km Apogee: 387 km Inclination: 51. ... Crew Launched: Anatoly Solovyev (3) Sergei Avdeyev (1) Michel Tognini (1) - France Landed: Anatoly Solovyev (3) Sergei Avdeyev (1) Mission Parameters Mass: 7150 kg Perigee: 196 km Apogee: 216 km Inclination: 51. ... STS-71 is a Space Shuttle program mission. ... Crew Launched: Anatoly Solovyev (5) Pavel Vinogradov (1) Landed: Anatoly Solovyev (5) Pavel Vinogradov (1) Leopold Eyharts (1) Mission Parameters Mass: 7150 kg Perigee: 193 km Apogee: 249 km Inclination: 51. ... Image File history File links Sts-71-patch. ... January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Riga (Latvian: RÄ«ga), the capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the River Daugava, at . ... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit. ... Star City can be: Star City Casino in Sydney, Australia Star City, Moscow, an astronautics establishment Star City, Arkansas, the county seat of Lincoln County, Arkansas The nickname of Lincoln, Nebraska Star City, a fictional city featured in Green Arrow comic books. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

Education

Graduated from the Lenin Komsomol Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School in 1972. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ...

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. The Order of Lenin (ru: Орден Ленина), named after the leader of the Russian Revolution, was the second highest national order of the Soviet Union (Highest was the Order of Victory). ... The Order of the October Revolution was instituted on October 31, 1967, in time for the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. ...

Experience

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-Sylian crew for an expedition that visited the Mir Station. His first flight in 1988, lasted nine days and was performed as part of an international Soviet-Bulgarian crew comprised 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. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre was inaugurated on January 11, 1960 in Star City outside Moscow. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mir (Мир, which can mean both world and peace in Russian) was a highly successful Soviet (and later Russian) space station. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (Cyrillic Александр Павлович Александров, born February 20, 1943) is a former Russian cosmonaut. ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. ... This article is about the year. ... The Space Shuttle Columbia seconds after engine ignition, April 12, 1981 (NASA). ...

Solovyev has brown hair and blue eyes, and is 5 feet 5 inches tall, and weighs 179 pounds.

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