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Alexey Leonov
Alexey Leonov · This image or video was catalogued by Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: S74-20824 ., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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Alexey Leonov

1934 – 2019 · aged 85

Soviet-Russian pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk (1934–2019)

Born
30 May 1934 · Listvyanka
Died
11 Oct 2019 · Burdenko Hospital
Part ofRussia1223 – todaySoviet Union1848 – 1991

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 98 years
  1. 30 May 1934BornBorn in Listvyanka
  2. 1961AwardOrder of the Red Star
  3. 1965AwardHero of the Soviet Union
  4. 1965AwardOrder of Lenin
  5. 1965AwardArtur Becker Medal in Gold
  6. 1965AwardHero of Socialist Labour of Bulgaria
  7. 1965AwardHonoured Master of Sports of the USSR
  8. 1965AwardOrder of Georgi Dimitrov
  9. 1965AwardPilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
  10. 1966AwardHero of Labour
  11. 1966AwardOrder of Karl Marx
  12. 1966AwardOrder of the Flag of the People's Republic of Hungary
  13. 1967AwardGold Medal of Military Valour
  14. 11 Oct 2019DiedDied in Burdenko Hospital

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1934 – 2019).

  1. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  2. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  3. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  4. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  5. 1938Munich Agreement
  6. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  7. 1939 – 1945World War II
  8. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  9. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  10. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  11. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  12. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  13. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  14. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  15. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  17. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  18. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  20. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  21. 1956Suez Crisis
  22. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  24. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  26. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  28. 1968Prague Spring
  29. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  30. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  31. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  32. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  34. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  35. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  36. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  37. 1985Schengen Agreement
  38. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  39. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  40. 19901990 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut and aviator, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first person to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds. He was also selected to be the first Soviet person to land on the Moon although the project was eventually cancelled.

In July 1975, Leonov commanded the Soyuz capsule in the Apollo–Soyuz mission, which docked in space for two days with an American Apollo capsule.

Leonov was twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1965, 1975), a Major General of Aviation (1975), laureate of the USSR State Prize (1981), and a member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party (2002–2019).

Text from the Wikipedia article Alexei Leonov, CC BY-SA 4.0

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