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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).
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1934-05-30
Deathday2019-10-11 (85 years old)
Birth PlaceListvyanka, Russia
CitizenshipsSoviet Union, Russia
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 Merit to the Fatherland" IV class, Gold Medal of Military Valour, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, Lenin Komsomol Prize, 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 of Georgi Dimitrov, Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow", Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Order of the Red Banner, Medal "For the strengthening of friendship in arms", VDNKh gold medal, Order of Civil Merit (Syria), Hero of Labor, Hero of Socialist Labour, Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms", Pilot-Cosmonaut 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", Order of the Red Star, Order of Karl Marx, 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 the Soviet Union, Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces 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 Lenin
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