Anatoly Berezovoy

Soviet cosmonaut (1942–2014)

Anatoly Berezovoy made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.

The record lists Anatoly Berezovoy as Soviet cosmonaut (1942–2014).

Anatoly Berezovoy was born at Enem in 1942. His recorded nationality is the Soviet Union. He was educated at Gagarin Air Force Academy.

The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.

He worked as astronaut, aircraft pilot and commandant.

Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.

Recognition followed: Officer of the Legion of Honour.

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.

Anatoly Berezovoy died in 2014, aged 72. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.

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