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Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyov.
Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyov.

Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyov

Soviet cosmonaut
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Assistant Professor of History, Fordham University, Bronx, New York. Author of Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974.
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Jan. 16, 1948, Riga, Latvia, U.S.S.R. (age 77)
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Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyov (born Jan. 16, 1948, Riga, Latvia, U.S.S.R.) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew into space five times and holds the record for the most time spent on space walks. Solovyov, a fighter pilot who had served in the Soviet Far East, joined the Soviet cosmonaut squad as a trainee in 1976. He flew into space for the first time in 1988 as commander of the Soyuz TM-5 mission on a 10-day flight to the Mir space station with a Bulgarian “guest-cosmonaut,” Aleksandr Aleksandrov. In the early 1990s, Solovyov flew two long-duration missions to Mir, the first (Soyuz ...(100 of 270 words)

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