Anatoly Berezovoy

Anatoly Berezovoy
Born	(1942-04-11)11 April 1942 Enem, RSFSR, USSR
Died	20 September 2014(2014-09-20) (aged 72) Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Soviet Russian
Occupation	Pilot
Awards
Space career
Cosmonaut
Rank	Colonel, Soviet Air Force
Time in space	211 days 09 hours 04 minutes
Selection	Air Force Group 5
Total EVAs	1
Total EVA time	2 hours 33 minutes
Missions	Soyuz T-5

Anatoly Nikolayevich Berezovoy (Template:Lang-ru; 11 April 1942 – 20 September 2014) was a Soviet cosmonaut.

Biography

Berezovoy was born in Enem, Adyghe Autonomous Oblast, Russian SFSR in a Ukrainian family. He was married with two children and graduated from the Air Force Academy

On 27 April 1970 he was selected as a cosmonaut. In 1982 he flew as Commander on Soyuz T-5 on the first mission to the Salyut 7 space station, returning to Earth on the Soyuz T-7 after 211 days 9 hours. He retired on 31 October 1992 due to medical reasons after injuries he received as a victim of an armed robbery. From 1992 to 1999, he was a Deputy President of Russian Space Federation.

Honours and awards

Anatoly Berezovoy and Valentin Lebedev on a 1983 Soviet stamp "211 days of working in space"

• Hero of the Soviet Union
• Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
• Order of Lenin
• Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 3rd class
• Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" (Russian Federation)
• Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)
• Order "The Sun of Freedom" (Afghanistan)
• Kirti Chakra (India)

External links

• Media related to Anatoly Berezovoy at Wikimedia Commons
• http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/people/astronauts/berez.html&br=braphic&cd=f&portal=vocals