Viktor Savinykh

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Viktor Savinykh
Виктор Савиных
Savinykh in 2016
Born	(1940-03-07) 7 March 1940 (age 84) Beryozkiny, Orichevsky District, Kirov Oblast, USSR
Status	Retired
Nationality	Soviet / Russian
Occupation	Flight engineer
Awards	Hero of the Soviet Union (twice) Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"
Space career
Cosmonaut
Time in space	196d 16h 59m
Selection	1978 Intercosmos Group
Missions	Soyuz T-4, Soyuz T-13 / Soyuz T-14, Mir EP-2 (Soyuz TM-5 / Soyuz TM-4)

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.