Anatoly Berezovoy

Anatoly Nikolayevich Beresowoi (Russian Анатолий Николаевич Березовой; born April 11, 1942 in Enem, Autonomous Republic of Adygea, Russian SFSR ) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut.

The members of the Soviet Air Force completed a correspondence course at the Academy of the Air Force. After Beresowoi was selected on April 27, 1970, through the Cosmonaut Training Centre as a cosmonaut, he was commander of the Salyut 7 From 1977 Beresowoi was trained as a crew for the TKS spacecraft. It was much larger than the Soyuz spacecraft and should be used for personnel and material transport to space stations. A flight to an Almaz station could have taken place in January 1981, but the Almaz program was canceled. Instead flights to the DOS space stations Salyut 6 and Salyut 7 were planned. Commander Beresowoi was to the team with the flight engineers Yury Artjuchin and Dmitri Jujukow. In December 1981, these plans were canceled. The TKS group was dissolved. In May 1982, Beresowoi was commander of the crew of Soyuz T -5 flight engineer Valentin Lebedev Vitalyevich. They flew to the Soviet space station Salyut 7 On July 30, 1982, he undertook together with Valentin Lebedev a spacewalk to retrieve equipment and experiments.

In April 1984, Beresowoi commander of the reserve team of Soyuz T -11 flight engineer Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko and the Indian research cosmonaut Ravish Malhotra.

After Anatoli Beresowoi was the victim of an armed robbery and suffered severe injuries, left the now Colonel of the Air Force on 31 October 1992 from the cosmonaut corps. Then Beresowoi had held the office of Vice President of the Russian Space Federation.

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Beresowoi is married and has two children.

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