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<div>{{Infobox person|name=Alexei Leonov|native_name=Алексей Леонов|image=Alexei Leonov.png|nationality=Russian|death_date=11 October 2019|death_place=[[Moscow]], [[Russian Federation]]|birth_date=30 May 1934|birth_place=Listvyanka, [[RSFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]|known=First spacewalk}}<br />
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'''Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov''' (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet cosmonaut and the first person in the world to do a spacewalk.<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Leonov was born in Listvyanka, Siberia, one of 12 children, and the 8th out of 9 surviving children. His father was an electrician and miner. He trained as an air force pilot and married Svetlana Pavlovna in 1959.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=[[Ella Rule]]|newspaper=[[Proletarian (newspaper)|Proletarian]]|title=Alexei Leonov, hero of the Soviet space programme|date=2020-01-20|url=https://thecommunists.org/2020/01/20/news/history/alexei-leonov-hero-soviet-space-programme-ussr-spacewalk/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516081130/https://thecommunists.org/2020/01/20/news/history/alexei-leonov-hero-soviet-space-programme-ussr-spacewalk/|archive-date=2022-05-16|retrieved=2022-12-18}}</ref><br />
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== Space program ==<br />
Leonov chose to participate in the Soviet space program in 1960. In 1965, he exited the spacecraft ''Voskhod 2'' while in orbit and floated in space for 12 minutes and 9 seconds at the end of a 5-meter tether. He returned to space in 1975 as commander of the Apollo-Soyuz project working alongside [[United States of America|Statesian]] astronauts.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Yuri Gagarin]]<br />
* [[Valentina Tereshkova]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
[[Category:Heroes of the Soviet Union]]<br />
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