Vladimír Remek

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Vladimír Remek
Czech Republic Ambassador to Russia
In office
16 January 2014 – 31 January 2018
PresidentMiloš Zeman
Preceded byPetr Kolář
Succeeded byVladimír Pivoňka
Member of the European Parliament
In office
20 July 2004 – 15 December 2013
Personal details
Born (1948-09-26) 26 September 1948 (age 75)
České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia
Nationality
Political party
Spouses
Hana Davidová
​
(divorced)​
[2]
  • Jana Remková[3]
OccupationPilot,
cosmonaut
, politician, ambassador
Awards
Signature
Colonel
Unit1st Fighter Air Regiment
Commands heldDeputy, 2nd Air Defense Division
Space career
Air Force Group 6
MissionsSoyuz 28
Mission insignia

Vladimír Remek (born 26 September 1948) is a Czech politician and diplomat, as well as a former

Czech Ambassador to Russia
.

Early life and military career

Remek was born on 26 September 1948 in České Budějovice (now in the Czech Republic).[8] He spent two years studying at the observatory in Kraví hora, Brno between 1962 and 1964.[9] Remek was influenced by his father, Jozef Remek, himself a military pilot.[10] Remek was an active member both in the

MiG-21s in the 1st Fighter Air Regiment.[13] In the 1970s Remek married his first wife, Czech actress Hana Davidová, the daughter of politician Václav David. They had a daughter together, Anna, in 1980.[2] He had a second daughter, Jana, three years after the first,[14] with his second wife, also called Jana.[3][15]

From 1972 to 1976, Remek studied at the

Museum for Aviation and Astronautics in Prague.[6] Following his retirement from the Czech Air Force in 1995, Remek represented Czech firm CZ Strakonice and joint venture CZ–Turbo-GAZ in Moscow.[3][6][17]

Interkosmos program

Kbely, Prague

Remek (then a Captain) joined the

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.[22] On 16 March, Remek and Aleksei Gubarev, the other member of the crew, were awarded the medal Hero of the Soviet Union.[23] Czechoslovak reaction to Remek's flight included comments about the media's inundation focused on Remek and the fact that he was only able to journey with a Soviet cosmonaut as if Remek needed a minder. One joke went: "Why didn't the Soviets send up two Czechoslovak cosmonauts? Because they would've landed in West Germany." Remek himself joked that his Soviet counterpart would slap Remek's hands off of controls if he touched anything without permission.[24] French astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien experienced this same behavior onboard Soyuz TM-7 in 1988.[25][26]

Political career

Due in part to his previous business contacts in Russia, Remek was appointed to the

BeiDou, a Chinese competitor.[29] He was reelected in 2009. When Petr Kolář resigned as the Czech Ambassador to Russia in December 2012, the ambassadorship sat empty for a year until the President of the Czech Republic, Miloš Zeman, appointed Remek in January 2014.[30] The appointment met with controversy as it was against the wishes of Zeman's Foreign Minister, Karel Schwarzenberg.[31] Observers have noted Remek has a friendly history with the Russians and although his communist affiliations are a minority in Russia, his appointment represents Zeman's pragmatic and pro-Russia stance.[32][33]

In popular culture

Statue of Remek and Gubarev in Košice

Czech astronomer

2552 Remek after the cosmonaut.[34] Remek is featured in a 2009 independent comedy film called Osadne about three residents from Osadné that seek out Remek at his office in Brussels to help tourism in their town.[35] Sculptor Jan Bartoš created a statue of Remek and Gubarev, which is located at Háje metro station, formerly known as Kosmonautů (meaning [station] of the cosmonauts) until 1990, in Prague.[36] Another statue of Remek is located in Košice, Slovakia.[37]

Bibliography

  • Splněné náděje. Panorama. 1979.
  • Richter, Karel, ed. (1982). Pod námi planeta země. Prague: Naše Vojsko.
  • Kosmická budoucnost lidstva: Města v kosmu. MF. 1986.

See also

Citations

  1. ^ East Europe Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs (Report). Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 9 August 1985. p. 78.
  2. ^ a b "Hana Davidová". Czecho-Slovak film database (in Czech). Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d Vladimír Remek Curriculum Vitae (doc). Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  4. ^ "Vladimir Remek". persona.rin.ru. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  5. ^ за большой вклад в развитие международного сотрудничества в области пилотируемой космонавтики (PDF) (Report) (in Russian). kremlin.ru. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  6. ^ a b c d "Biographies of International Astronauts; Remek, Vladimír "Volodya"". Space Facts. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  7. ^ Molloy 2009, p. 104.
  8. ^ a b "Sojuz 28 v L+K č. 5/1978". MEK (in Czech). 17 February 2003. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
  9. ^ "Historie". Hvězdárna a planetárium Brno (in Czech). Archived from the original on 14 March 2012.
  10. ISBN 978-80-901579-5-8
    .
  11. ^ a b "Gathering of Eagles bio: Vladimir Remek". Air University (United States Air Force). Archived from the original on 23 April 2006.
  12. ^ Evans 2011, p. 316.
  13. ^ "On-line rozhovor : Ptejte se prvního a zatím posledního Čechoslováka ve vesmíru". technet.idnes.cz (in Czech). 10 March 2008. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  14. ^ Šimončič, Andrej (6 March 2008). "Vladimír Remek: Prvý od nás" (in Slovak). Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  15. ^ Strašíková, Lucie (10 March 2009). "Remek strávil ve vesmíru osm dní". ČT24 (in Czech). Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  16. ^ "Vladimír Remek". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  17. ^ a b "Prvý československý kozmonaut, plukovník Vladimír Remek, sa vrátil na miesta, kde kedysi študoval". Košický Korzár (in Czech). 30 October 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  18. ISBN 0-595-14808-5
    .
  19. ISBN 963-7326-26-X
    .
  20. ^ "Commemorating 30 years of European human space flight". EU CORDIS. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  21. ^ "Vladimir Remek". European Space Agency. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  22. ^ Evans, Ben (6 March 2012). "'It Wasn't a Sense of Guilt": The Flight of Vladimir Remek". Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  23. ^ Molloy 2009, pp. 103–106.
  24. S2CID 145304247
    .
  25. ^ "Remek Jokes a New Fad". Argus-Press. 17 May 1978. p. 17.
  26. ISBN 978-0-387-73975-5
    .
  27. ^ "Remek to take up post as ambassador to Russia on 16 Jan". Prague Daily Monitor. 14 January 2014. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014.
  28. ^ "European Parliament / MEPs". European Parliament. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  29. Fox News Channel
    . Associated Press. 7 June 2007. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  30. ^ "Ex-cosmonaut to be Czech ambassador to Russia". The Prague Post. 30 December 2013. Archived from the original on 2 December 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  31. ^ "Zeman proposes Livia Klausova as ambassador to Slovakia". 29 March 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  32. ^ Willoughby, Ian (13 November 2013). "Cosmonaut and Communist MEP Remek returning to Moscow as Czech ambassador". Radio Prague.
  33. ^ Pesek, Petr (17 January 2014). "Czech press survey". Lidové noviny. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  34. ^ "2552 Remek (1978 SP)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  35. ^ "Osadne". International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 11 December 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  36. ^ Fedorenko, Anton (18 November 2006). "sousoší Kosmonautů (Cosmonaut Statue)" (in Czech). Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  37. ^ Sambor, Miroslav (30 October 2010). "Aby pred letom nechytil herpes, ruky si musel ošetrovať alkoholom Prvý československý kozmonaut, plukovník Vladimír Remek, sa vrátil na miesta, kde kedysi študoval (The first Czechoslovak cosmonaut, Colonel Vladimír Remek, returned to the places where he once studied)". Korzár (in Slovak). Retrieved 8 September 2015.

References

Notes

  1. ^ Candidate for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, but not legally a party member

External links

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