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Solovyov, Anatoli Yakovlevich
Solovyov
Solovyov
Credit: www.spacefacts.de
Russian test pilot cosmonaut 1976-1999. 651 cumulative days in space.

Status: Inactive; Active 1976-1999. Born: 1948-01-16. Spaceflights: 5 . Total time in space: 651.00 days. Birth Place: Riga, Riga.

Official NASA Biography as of June 2016:Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev
Pilot-Cosmonaut, Colonel. Resides in Star City.

BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Born January 16, 1948, in Riga.

PARENTS: Yakov Mikhailovich Solovyev, father, deceased in 1980. Antonia Pavlovna Soloveva, mother, resides in Riga.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Brown hair, blue eyes; 5 feet 5 inches; 179 pounds.

EDUCATION: Graduated from the Lenin Komsomol Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School in 1972.

MARITAL STATUS: Married to Natalya Vasilyevna Solovyeva (nee Katyshevtseva).

CHILDREN: Two sons, Gennady in 1975, and Illya in 1980.

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.

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 9 days and was performed as part of an international Soviet-Bulgalian 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 th At present, he is 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.

Official NASA Biography - 1997

NAME: Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev
Pilot-Cosmonaut, Colonel. Resides in Star City.

BIRTHPLACE AND DATE:
Born January 16, 1948, in Riga.

PARENTS:
Yakov Mikhailovich Solovyev, father, deceased in 1980. Antonia Pavlovna Soloveva, mother, resides in Riga.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Brown hair, blue eyes; 5 feet 5 inches; 179 pounds.

EDUCATION:
Graduated from the Lenin Komsomol Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School in 1972.

MARITAL STATUS:
Married to Natalya Vasilyevna Solovyeva (nee Katyshevtseva).

CHILDREN:
Two sons, Gennady in 1975, and Illya in 1980.

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.

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 9 days and was performed as part of an international Soviet-Bulgalian 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 th At present, he is 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.

Call sign: Rodnik (Spring - water spring)


More at: Solovyov.

Family: Cosmonaut. Country: Latvia, Russia. Spacecraft: Mir. Flights: Soyuz T-15A, Soyuz T-15B, Soyuz T-15C, Soyuz TM-3 Mir EP-1, Soyuz TM-4, Soyuz TM-4 LII-1, Soyuz TM-5, Soyuz TM-8, Soyuz TM-9, Soyuz TM-14A, Soyuz TM-14, Soyuz TM-15, Soyuz TM-15 Antares, Soyuz TM-21, STS-71 Mir EO-19, Soyuz TM-26. Agency: VVS. Bibliography: 12, 6046.
Photo Gallery

Soyuz TM-9Soyuz TM-9
Baladin and Solovyov aboard Mir.
Credit: RKK Energia



1948 January 16 - .
1976 August 23 - .
1986 Early - .
1986 June - .
1986 September - .
1987 July 22 - . 01:59 GMT - . Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Complex: Baikonur LC1. LV Family: R-7. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-U2.
1988 June 7 - . 14:03 GMT - . Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Complex: Baikonur LC1. LV Family: R-7. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-U2.
1988 June 17 - .
1989 September 5 - . 21:38 GMT - . Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Complex: Baikonur LC1. LV Family: R-7. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-U2.
1990 February 11 - . 06:16 GMT - . Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Complex: Baikonur LC1. LV Family: R-7. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-U2.
1990 July 17 - . 13:06 GMT - .
1990 July 26 - . 11:15 GMT - .
1990 August 9 - .
1991 End - .
1992 March 17 - . 10:54 GMT - . Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Complex: Baikonur LC1. LV Family: R-7. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-U2.
1992 July 27 - . 06:08 GMT - . Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Complex: Baikonur LC1. LV Family: R-7. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-U2.
1992 September 3 - . 13:32 GMT - .
1992 September 7 - . 11:47 GMT - .
1992 September 11 - . 10:06 GMT - .
1992 September 15 - . 07:49 GMT - .
1993 February 1 - .
1994 October 3 - . 22:42 GMT - . Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Complex: Baikonur LC1. LV Family: R-7. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-U2.
1995 June 27 - . 19:32 GMT - . Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Complex: Cape Canaveral LC39A. Launch Platform: MLP3. LV Family: Shuttle. Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle.
1995 July 14 - . 03:56 GMT - .
1995 July 19 - . 00:39 GMT - .
1995 July 21 - . 00:28 GMT - .
1995 September 11 - .
1997 August 5 - . 15:35 GMT - . Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Complex: Baikonur LC1. LV Family: R-7. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-U-PVB.
1997 August 22 - . 11:14 GMT - .
1997 September 6 - . 01:07 GMT - .
1997 October 20 - . 09:40 GMT - .
1997 November 3 - . 03:32 GMT - .
1997 November 6 - . 00:12 GMT - .
1998 January 9 - . 23:08 GMT - .
1998 January 14 - . 21:12 GMT - .
1998 February 19 - .

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