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SOLOVYOV
Anatoly Yakovlevich

Pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR СLASSIFICATION: 65/205.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 5.
SPACEFLIGHT HOURS: 651 days 00 hours 03 min. 28 sec.
EVA OPERATIONS: 16.
TOTAL EVA TIME: 82 hours 21 min.
WORLD PRECEDENCE: performed 5 flights aboard the same type of space vehicle (the Mir orbital station, 1988, 1990, 1992 -1993, 1995, 1997 -1998), set the world record in the number of space walks performed and the total duration of operation in outer space.
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: January 16, 1948, the Latvian SSR (Layvia), Riga city.
NATIONALITY: Russian.
EDUCATION:
1964 – completed the nine-year course at secondary school in Riga;
1966 – finished evening school in Riga;
1968 – finished incomplete first-year course at the Latvian State University;
October 1972 – graduated from the Chernigov Higher Air Force School named after Lenin Komsomol with the certificate of a military pilot-engineer.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
from July 14, 1964 – a general labourer at the Riga building materials factory, the Latvian SSR;
September 10, 1964 – July 10, 1967 – a metalworker at the worsted manufacturing corporation in Riga;
March 14 – August 1, 1968 – a metalworker at the Latvian combined air group in Riga;
from November 1972 – was at the command of the Commander of Special Far Eastern AA 1, Far Eastern AD;
from November 27, 1972 – a senior pilot;
from November 1, 1974 – a section commander of detached air reconnaissance regiment 352 of Special FEA 1, FED.
DATE OF ENROLLMENT IN COSMONAUT CORPS (GROUP NUMBER, DATE):
August 23, 1976 – was enrolled as a student-cosmonaut (group 6) in the cosmonaut corps of the Air Force Cosmonaut Training Center by the Air Force Commander-in-Chief order;
from January 30, 1979 – a test cosmonaut of the aerospace means group.
RATING: September 29, 1975 – a first-class military pilot; mastered the aircraft of 14 types. Flying hours: more than 1400 hours, August 1977 – an instructor of the Air Force Paradrop Training (140 parachute jumps) and a diver-officer, March 31, 1993 – a first-class cosmonaut.
BACK-UP ACTIVITY:
September 1, 1984 – August 1985 – a commander of the third (reserve) crew on the program of the Basic Expedition to the Salyut-7 station together with A. Serebrov and N. Moskalenko;
July 22, 1987 – a back-up man to the Soyuz TM-3 commander A. Viktorenko;
September-November 1988 – a commander of the third (reserve) crew on the BE-4 program to the Mir station together with A. Balandin;
September 6, 1989 – a back-up man to the Soyuz TM-8 commander A. Viktorenko;
May 19 – July 1991 – a commander of the BE-10 reserve crew together with A. Zaitsev;
March 17, 1992 – a back-up man to the Soyuz TM-14 commander A. Viktorenko;
March 14, 1995 – a back-up man to the Soyuz TM-21 commander V. Dezhurov.
SPACEFLIGHTS PERFORMED:
Flight 1 – June 7-17, 1988 – a commander of the Soyuz TM-5 crew together with V. Savinykh and A.P. Alexandrov (Bulgaria) on the program of the Visiting Mission to the Mir orbital station. Flight duration: 9 days 20 hours 09 min. 19 sec. Call sign: “Rodnik-1”;
Flight 2 – February 11 – August 9, 1990 – a commander of the Soyuz TM-9 crew and the Mir orbital station on the BE-6 program together with A. Balandin. Performed his responsibilities aboard the station together with A. Viktorenko and A. Serebrov (BE-5), G. Manakov and G. Strekalov (BE-7). Performed two space walks logging 10 hours and 31 min. Flight duration: 179 days 01 min. 17 hours 57 sec. Call sign: “Rodnik-1”;
Flight 3 – July 27, 1992 – February 1, 1993 – a commander of the Soyuz TM-15 transport vehicle and the Mir orbital station on the BE-12 program together with S. Avdeyev and M. Tognini (France). Performed his responsibilities aboard the station together with A. Viktorenko and A. Kaleri, G. Manakov and A. Poleschuk. During the flight he performed 4 space walks logging 18 hours 21 min. Flight duration: 188 days 21 hours 41 min. 15 sec. Call sign: “Rodnik-1”;
Flight 4 – June 27 – September 11, 1995 – the BE-19 commander aboard the Mir station together with N. Budarin. The Russian crew was for the first time delivered to the station aboard the Atlantis shuttle on the STS-71 program (the crew – R. Gibson, Ch. Precourt, E. Baker, G. Harbaugh and B. Dunbar). Performed his responsibilities aboard the station together with V. Dezhurov, G. Strekalov, N. Thagard (BE-18), as well as with Yu. Gidzenko, S. Avdeyev and T. Reiter (BE-20). Performed 3 space walks logging 14 hours 32 min. Flight duration: 75 days 11 hours 20 min. 21 sec. Call sign: “Rodnik-1”;
Flight 5 – August 5, 1997 – February 19, 1998– a commander of the Soyuz TM-26 transport vehicle and the Mir orbital station on the BE-24 program together with P. Vinogradov. Flight duration:197 days 17 hours 34 min. 36 sec. Call sign: “Rodnik-1”;
DISCHARGE FROM COSMONAUT CORPS:
1999 – was discharged from the cosmonaut corps having reached the age limit.
AWARDS:
Medal “Gold Star” of Hero of the Soviet Union,
Order of Lenin (1988),
The Order of October Revolution (1990),
Order of Peoples Friendship (1983),
Order of Merit to the Country, class II (April 1988), class III (October 7, 1995),
15 commemorative medals,
Prize of the Russian Federation Parliament (March 17, 1999) for the provision of the long-term operation and maintenance of the technical functionality of the Salyut and Mir orbital stations and their modules,
Medal “Gold Star” of Hero of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria,
Georgy Dimitrov Order (Bulgaria, 1988),
Order “For Military Valour” (Syria, August 1987),
Two NASA Space Flight Medals.
CURRENT STATUS: 1999 – was transferred to the reserve having reached the age limit (Colonel in the reserve).

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