Viktor Savinykh

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Viktor Petrovich Savinykh (born 7 March 1940) 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 (Савиных В. П. Записки с мертвой станции. — М.: ИД «Системы Алиса», 1999. - 88 c.) (ISBN 5-901135-01-6). (The book is dedicated to the restoration of control in 1985 over the Salyut 7 space orbital 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 (26 May 1981 and 20 December 1985)
• 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

1st class (27 February 2020)

2nd class (6 March 2000) - for outstanding achievements in scientific research and a great contribution to the preparation of highly qualified personnel

3rd class (11 November 1994) - a great service to the people associated with the development of Russian statehood, the achievements in labor, science, culture, arts, strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples

4th class (12 December 2010) - for services to education, science and a great contribution to the training of qualified specialists

• Order of Honour
  (2 November 2004) - for services to the development of education and many years of diligent work
• Three Orders of Lenin
• Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" (12 April 2011) - 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 (18 June 1996)
• State Prize of the USSR (1989)
• Order of Stara Planina
  (People's Republic of Bulgaria; 9 June 2003)
• Order of Georgi Dimitrov People's Republic of Bulgaria)
• Order of Sukhbaatar (Mongolian People's Republic)
• Order of Military Glory of the Syrian Arab Republic (UAR, 1987)
• Two of the Order of "Friendship" (ATS, 1999, 2000)
• Award of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of education for 2002 (5 October 2003)
• Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1981)
• Gold medal of the Tsiolkovsky Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1986) - for outstanding contribution to space exploration
• Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2019)

Honorary citizen of

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