Soviet cosmonaut who was the first human to perform a space walk on 18th March 1965. Leonov exited his Voskhod-3KD spacecraft for 12 minutes and 9 seconds.
Alexey Leonov was born on 30 May, 1934
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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster occurs
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