Anatoly Arzebarskyj

Anatoly Arzebarskyj
Country:	USSR
selected on	2nd September 1985
Calls:	1 space flight
Begin:	May 18, 1991
Landing:	October 10, 1991
Time in space:	144 d, 15 h, 22 min
EVA inserts:	6th
EVA total duration:	32 h, 17 min
retired on	July 28, 1994
Space flights
Soyuz TM-12 (1991) Me EO-9

Anatoly Pawlowytsch Arzebarskyj ( Ukrainian Анатолій Павлович Арцебарський , Russian Анатолий Павлович Арцебарский Anatoly Pavlovich Arzebarski * 9. September 1956 in Prosjana , Oblast Dnipropetrovsk , Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent.

Space flights

Special features of the Soyuz TM-12 mission

Arzebarskyj was stationed on the Mir during the dissolution of the Soviet Union . It started on May 18, 1991 and witnessed the election of Boris Yeltsin as president, the coup in Moscow and the Ukraine's declaration of independence in space .

For political reasons, instead of the planned long-term replacement from Russia, the Kazakh Toqtar Aubäkirov was sent to the Mir in October 1991 , a cosmonaut with no long-term experience who returned to Earth after eight days. The cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev , who is already living on the Mir station, had to extend his stay by half a year. The Russians were responding to a demand from the soon-to-be-independent Republic of Kazakhstan , on whose territory the Baikonur Cosmodrome is located.

Arzebarskyj is married and has four children.

See also

• List of spacemen
• List of manned missions to the Mir space station
• List of Mir expeditions
• List of Soyuz missions

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• spacefacts.de: Short biography
• space.kursknet.ru: Short biography ( memento from August 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English / Russian)