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Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev (Russian
language|Russian:
Анатоли&
#1081;
Яковлев&
#1080;ч
Соловьё&
#1074;; 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).

==Education==
Graduated from the Lenin Komsomol Chernigov Higher
Military Aviation School in 1972.

==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
nine days and was performed as part of an
international Soviet-Bulgarian crew comprised of
A.Y. Solovyev, B.P. Savinykh. and Aleksandr
Pavlovich Aleksandrov|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-Space Shuttle program|Shuttle program.

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

Source:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/solovyev.htm
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