Education
Graduated from the Lenin Communist Youth League Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School in 1972.
Graduated from the Lenin Communist Youth League Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School in 1972.
Solovyev holds the world record on the number of spacewalks performed (16), and accumulated time spent spacewalking (over 82 hours). Solovyev"s parents are Yakov Mikhailovich Solovyev (father), deceased in 1980 and Antonia Pavlovna Soloveva, who resides in Riga. Solovyev resides in Star City.
Hero of the Soviet Union (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics); Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics); Order Foreign Merit to the Fatherland 2nd and 3rd classes; Order of Lenin (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics); Order of the October Revolution (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics); Order of Friendship of Peoples (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics); Medal "Foreign Merit in Space Exploration". Foreign awards: Hero of the People"s Republic of Bulgaria; Order of Georgi Dimitrov (Bulgaria); Officer of the Legion of Honour (France); Order of Stara Planina (Republic of Bulgaria); two National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Flight Medals.
Graduated from the Lenin Communist Youth League Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School in 1972. Order Foreign Merit to the Fatherland 2nd and 3rd classes.