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Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov was born on May 30 in the village of Listvyanka, the Tisa district of the Kemerovo region in a large family. Father, Arkhip Alekseevich, worked as the chairman of the village council, was repressed, then rehabilitated by the mother, Evdokia Minaevna in the girlishness of Sotnikov; , was a teacher. In the year, together with his family, he moved to Kaliningrad by the regional center.

Education, a degree in the year Alexei Leonov graduated from the Yu Military Aviation School of Primary Education of Pilots in the city of Kremenchug Ukraine, in the year - the Chuguev Military Aviation School of Pilots Ukraine; Now - Kharkov National University of Air Forces. Ivan Kozhedub with a degree in Fighter Pilot. At the end of the Faculty of Engineering of the Air Force Engineering Academy.

Zhukovsky VVIA received the specialty "Design and operation of aerospace devices and engines for them" Qualification-"pilot-engineer-cosmonaut". In the year he graduated from the adjunct by Vevi. In the year, he defended the thesis of the candidate of technical sciences. Since the year, the service in the Air Force served as a pilot of the fighter aviation regiment of the Guards Fighter Aviation Division of the Air Army of the Kyiv Military District, from the year as the senior pilot of the Separate Air Air Air Air Army as part of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.

The 1st class military pilot flew for hours, made a parachute jump. In the Cosmonauts detachment on March 7, by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, he was enrolled in a cosmonaut as a detachment of cosmonauts of the Cosmonauts of the Cosmonauts of the Air Force of the CPC; Now - the research and research center for the training of astronauts named after He held the posts of the astronaut from the year, the cosmonaut instructor from the year, the deputy commander of the 1st detachment of astronauts since the year, the deputy head of the department and senior instructor-cosmonaut from the year, deputy head of the CPC since the year.

In the year, he was assigned the qualification of the 19th class astronaut. In years he was the commander of the cosmonauts detachment. Alexei Leonov made two space flights, flying a total of 7 days 33 minutes, and the world's first exit to the outer space the total time is 23 minutes 41 seconds, of which 12 minutes 9 seconds are outside the ship. The first flight took place on March of the year, in which he was the second pilot of the Voskhod -2 ship -commander - Pavel Belyaev.

In the years, Leonov headed a group of astronauts preparing for flight to the moon. After the closing of the lunar program was prepared under the DOS program "Long -term orbital station", but did not fly to the first stations "Salyut". The first in open space in the year TASS handed a message about the first person’s output in the history of open cosmos: “On March 19 at 12 hours 02 minutes of Moscow time, the Voskhod-2 spacecraft, piloted by the crew commander, Colonel Belyaev Pavel Ivanovich and the second pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Leonov Alexei Arkhipovich, landed safely in the city of Perm.

Planting the ship's commander by Colonel Belyaev using a manual control system. The materials obtained in the flight of the Voskhod-2 spacecraft-satellite are processed and analyzed. "It was not mentioned that it was Leonov that made the very first exit to the outer space. Only a few experts knew with what risk was associated with this experiment. Many years later the general public became known that Leonov at first could not return to the ship, because due The spacesuit did not fly into the hatch.

The Firms of the year was elected president of the Alfa-Capital Check Investment Fund-Alfa-Group has held the position of vice president of Alfa-Bank. Currently, an adviser to the First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank Oleg Sysuev.

He was a member of the CPSU. He was elected as a deputy of the Moscow City Council, as well as a member of the Supreme Council of the All -Russian political party "United Russia". The program "Life Line" was engaged in charity - helping children with a disease of the cardiovascular system. The awards, the Honorary Honorary Hero Hero of the Soviet Union, Gagarin in the field of space activity for the city was marked by the gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation, the certificate of honor of the Government of the Russian Federation among his awards - gold medals named after his awards.Cosmonaut Pilot of the USSR Honored Master of Sports Actual member of the International Academy of Astronautics, Academician of the Russian Academy of Astronautics.

As well as an honorary citizen of the Moscow, Vladimir regions. Proceedings, hobbies are the author of more than 10 scientific works, four inventions and a number of books, among them - “Cosmos pedestrian”, “Solar wind”, “I go into space”, “The time of the first. My fate is ...” and others. The co -author of the “Perception of space and time in space”, “Life among the stars” was fond of painting near the paintings.

He had 2 category in cycling, 3 category of fencing. The family was married. Wife - Svetlana Pavlovna genus. Oksana genus. In honor of Leonov, one of the craters on the moon is named. In the year, the authorities of the Kemerovo region established a regional award - the medal of Alexei Leonov. In the year, the feature film of Dmitry Kiselev was released in the Russian rental “The Time of the First” about the entry into the outer space of Alexei Leonov, in which it was played by Evgeny Mironov.

The astronaut himself was one of the main consultants when working on the picture. In the same year, the artistic biographical album "Aleksey Leonov. Man and Cosmos" was published, which collected reproductions of paintings by the astronaut, his memoirs, as well as quotes of outstanding figures, colleagues and friends of Leonov, rare photographs, documents and historical certificates.