Biography
Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, 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 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).
Filmography
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Movies 10
self 7
Writer 1
Self
Apollo-Soyuz: The First Handshake in Space (2016)
Movie
Alexei Leonov
Touch the sky (2012)
Movie
Self
The Silence of Pelešjan (2011)
Movie
Self
Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back (1994)
Movie
Writer
The Orion Loop (1980)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
Interkosmos (1980)
Movie
Military Consultant
The Beginning of the Legend (1977)
Movie
Himself
The Mission of Apollo-Soyuz (1975)
Movie
Голубой огонек - в первый час (1965)
Movie
Himself / Additional Camera
In a Spacesuit Above the Planet (1965)
Movie
Ratings
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1977
1980
2016
2016
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1934-05-30
Deathday2019-10-11 (85 years old)
Birth PlaceListvyanka, Russia
CitizenshipsSoviet Union, Russia
Also Known AsAleksei A. Leonov, Lexey Leonov, Alexeï Leonov, Алексей Леонов
AwardsInternational Space Hall of Fame, Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class, Medal "For Impeccable Service", 3rd class, Medal "For Impeccable Service", 2nd class, Medal "For Impeccable Service", 1st class, medal "For training", Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Victory over militaristic Japan", Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I class, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III class, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV class, Gold Medal of Military Valour, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, Lenin Komsomol Prize, Order of the Red Banner, Medal "For the strengthening of friendship in arms", VDNKh gold medal, Order of Civil Merit (Syria), Hero of Labor, Order of Georgi Dimitrov, Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow", Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Soviet Militia", Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Order of Friendship, Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", USSR State Prize, Artur Becker Medal, Hero of Socialist Labour, Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms", Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR, Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Order of the Flag of the People's Republic of Hungary, Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the Red Star, Order of Karl Marx, Order of Lenin, Hero of the Soviet Union, Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
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