Viktor Savinykh
Viktor Petrovich Savinykh is a Soviet cosmonaut, scientist, and organizer of personnel training in the higher education system. Selected as a cosmonaut on 1 December 1978, he flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz T-4, Soyuz T-13 and Soyuz TM-5, and has spent 252 days 17 hours 38 minutes in space. Savinykh retired on 9 February 1989.
Savinykh was born in Beryozkiny, Kirov Oblast, Russian SFSR on 7 March 1940. He is married with one child. In 1989-2007 he was the rector, and since 2007 the president, of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography.
Viktor Savinykh is the author of the book Notes from a Dead Station ..
In March 2011, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Kirov Oblast of the fifth convocation in a single constituency from the United Russia party.
Honours and awards
- Twice Hero of the Soviet Union
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
- Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic
- Hero of the [People's Republic of Bulgaria]
- Full Cavalier of the Order For Merit to the Fatherland
- Order of Honour - for services to the development of education and many years of diligent work
- Three Orders of Lenin
- Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" - for the great achievements in the field of research, development and utilization of outer space, many years of diligent work, public activities
- Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy"
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
- State Prize of the Russian Federation for science and technology
- State Prize of the USSR
- Order of Stara Planina
- Order of Georgi Dimitrov People's Republic of Bulgaria)
- Order of Sukhbaatar
- Order of Military Glory of the Syrian Arab Republic
- Two of the Order of "Friendship"
- Award of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of education for 2002
- Honored Master of Sports of the USSR
- Gold medal of the Tsiolkovsky Academy of Sciences of the USSR - for outstanding contribution to space exploration
- Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
In 2005, minor planet 6890 was named after Savinykh.