In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yevgenyevna and the family name is Savitskaya.
Svetlana Savitskaya
MP
Светлана Савицкая
Savitskaya in 2018
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 December 2003
Member of the State Duma for Moscow Oblast
In office 17 January 1996 – 29 December 2003
Preceded by
constituency established
Succeeded by
Dmitry Sablin
Constituency
Sergiyev Posad (No. 113)
Personal details
Born
(1948-08-08) 8 August 1948 (age 75) Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Political party
CPRF (from 1993)
CPSU (until 1991)
Spouse
Viktor Khatkovsky
Children
1
Parents
Yevgeny Savitsky (father)
Lydia Savitskaya (mother)
Education
Central United Flight Technical School
Moscow Aviation Institute
Flight Research Institute of the Ministry of Aviation Industry
Moscow Higher Technical School (DPhil)
Occupation
flight engineer
aviator
flight instructor
politician
Awards
Hero of the Soviet Union (2)
Signature
Space career
Cosmonaut (retired)
Rank
Major
Time in space
19 days 17 hours 6 minutes
Selection
1980 (Female Group 2)
Total EVAs
1
Total EVA time
3 hours 35 minutes
Missions
Soyuz T-7/Soyuz T-5 (Salyut 7 - EP2)
Soyuz T-12 (Salyut 7 - EP4)
Mission insignia
Svetlana Savitskaya's voice
Echo of Moscow, recorded 18 January 2007
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (Russian: Светла́на Евге́ньевна Сави́цкая; born 8 August 1948) is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk.
She set several FAI world records as a pilot.
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