Alexey Leonov made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Alexey Leonov as Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk (1934-2019).
Alexey Leonov was born at Listvyanka in 1934. His recorded nationality is the Soviet Union. He was educated at Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy and Kremenchuk flight college of National Aviation University.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives his occupations as military aviator, astronaut and painter.
Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.
His recorded fields of work are astronautics and space exploration.
His work was formally recognised with the Hero of the Soviet Union, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class and Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class.
Working from the Soviet Union shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Alexey Leonov died in 2019 at the age of 85. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Educated at Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy and Kremenchuk flight college of National Aviation University
- Worked as military aviator, astronaut and painter
