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{{Short description|Soviet cosmonaut (1934–2019)}}
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{{family name hatnote|Arkhipovich|Leonov|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
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{{Infobox astronaut
| name        = Alexei Leonov
| image       = Alexei Leonov.jpg
| caption     = Leonov in 1974
| type        = [[Soviet space program|Soviet]] cosmonaut
| native_name = {{nobold|Алексей Леонов}}
| native_name_lang = ru
| birth_name  = Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1934|5|30|df=yes}}
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|2019|10|11|1934|5|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Tisulsky District|Listvyanka]], [[West Siberian Krai]], [[Russian&nbsp;SFSR]], Soviet&nbsp;Union
| death_place = [[Moscow]], Russia
| resting_place = [[Federal Military Memorial Cemetery]], Moscow Oblast
| occupation  = [[Fighter pilot]], [[cosmonaut]]
| rank        = [[Major general]], [[Soviet Air Force]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/23/archives/soyuz-crew-eager-for-another-flight.html|title=Soyuz Crew Eager for Another Flight|newspaper=The New York Times|date=23 July 1975|page=55|agency=UPI}}</ref>
| selection   = [[List of astronauts by selection#1960|Air Force Group 1 (1960)]]
| evas        = 1
| eva_time    = 12{{nbsp}}minutes, 9{{nbsp}}seconds
| time        = 7{{nbsp}}days, 33{{nbsp}}minutes, 3{{nbsp}}seconds{{sfn|Burgess|Hall|2009|p=383}}
| mission     = {{Unbulleted indent list
   | [[Voskhod 2]]
   | [[Soyuz 19]] ([[Apollo–Soyuz Test Project]])
   }}
| insignia    = [[File:Zvezda Rocket Patch.svg|40px]] [[File:ASTP patch.png|48px]]
| retirement  = 26 January 1982
| awards      = [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] (twice)
| signature   = Alexey Leonov signature.svg
}}

'''Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov'''{{efn|{{lang-rus|Алексе́й Архи́пович Лео́нов|p=ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐrˈxʲipəvʲɪtɕ lʲɪˈonəf}}.}} (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian [[cosmonaut]] and [[aviator]], [[Soviet Air Forces|Air Force]] [[major general]], writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first person to conduct a [[Extravehicular activity|spacewalk]], exiting the [[Space capsule|capsule]] during the [[Voskhod 2]] mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds. He was also selected to be the first Soviet person to [[Soviet crewed lunar programs|land on the Moon]] although the project was eventually cancelled.

In July 1975, Leonov commanded the [[Soyuz program|Soyuz capsule]] in the [[Apollo–Soyuz]] mission, which docked in space for two days with an American [[Apollo command and service module|Apollo capsule]].

Leonov was twice [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] (1965, 1975),<ref name = "enciklop2007">{{cite book |chapter=Леонов Алексей Архипович |title=Авиационная энциклопедия в лицах |trans-title=Aviation encyclopedia in faces |editor-last=Yefimov |editor-first=Aleksandr |editor-link=Aleksandr Yefimov |location=Москва |publisher=Bars |date=2007 |page=369 |isbn=978-5-85914-075-6}}</ref> a Major General of Aviation (1975), laureate of the [[USSR State Prize]] (1981), and a member of the Supreme Council of the [[United Russia]] party (2002–2019).

== Early life and military service ==
Leonov was born on 30 May 1934 in [[Tisulsky District|Listvyanka]], [[West Siberian Krai]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], in a [[Russians|Russian]] family.{{sfn|Burgess|Hall|2009|p=54}} His grandfather had been forced to relocate to Siberia for his role in the [[1905 Russian Revolution]]. Alexei was the eighth of nine surviving children born to Yevdokia {{nee|Sotnikova}} and Arkhip.{{efn|Three additional children died in infancy{{sfn|Burgess|Hall|2009|p=55}}}}{{sfn|Burgess|Hall|2009|p=55}} His father was an electrician and miner.{{Sfn|French|Burgess|2007|p=353}}

In 1936, his father was arrested and declared an "enemy of the people". Leonov wrote in his autobiography: "He was not alone: many were being arrested. It was part of a conscientious drive by the authorities to eradicate anyone who showed too much independence or strength of character. These were the years of [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]'s [[Great Purge|purges]]. Many disappeared into remote [[gulag]]s and were never seen again."{{sfn|Scott|Leonov|2004|p=8}}

The family moved in with one of his married sisters in [[Kemerovo]]. His father rejoined the family in Kemerovo after he was released. He was compensated for his wrongful imprisonment.{{sfn|Burgess|Hall|2009|p=55}} Leonov used art as a way to provide more food for the family. He began his art career by drawing flowers on ovens and later painted landscapes on canvasses.{{sfn|Burgess|Hall|2009|p=55}}

The Soviet government encouraged its citizens to move to Soviet-occupied Prussia, so in 1948 his family relocated to [[Kaliningrad]].{{sfn|Burgess|Hall|2009|p=56}} Leonov graduated from secondary school (No. 21) in 1953.{{sfn|Burgess|Hall|2009|p=56}} He applied to the Academy of Arts in [[Riga]], Latvia, but decided not to attend due to the high tuition costs. Leonov decided to join a Ukrainian preparatory flying school in [[Kremenchug]]. He made his first solo flight in May 1955. While indulging in his passion for art by studying part-time in Riga, Leonov started an advanced two-year course to become a fighter pilot at the [[Chuhuiv|Chuguev]] Higher Air Force Pilots School in the [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]].{{sfn|Burgess|Hall|2009|p=56}}

On 30 October 1957, Leonov graduated with an honours degree and was commissioned a [[Ranks and insignia of the Soviet Armed Forces 1955–1991#Army officers and generals (all services)|lieutenant]] in the 113th Parachute Aviation Regiment, part of the 10th Engineering Aviation Division of the [[17th Air Army#Post War Reorganization|69th Air Army]] in [[Kyiv]].{{sfn|Burgess|Hall|2009|p=56}} On 13 December 1959, he married Svetlana Pavlovna Dozenko.<ref name="astronaut.ru" /> The next day he moved to [[East Germany]] to his new assignment with the 294th Reconnaissance Regiment of the [[16th Air Army|24th Air Army]].{{sfn|Burgess|Hall|2009|p=56}}

== Soviet space program==
[[File:RIAN archive 888102 Soviet cosmonauts.jpg|thumb|Alexei Leonov (far left, back row) with fellow cosmonauts in 1965]]

He was one of the 20 [[Soviet Air Forces]] pilots selected to be part of the first cosmonaut training group in 1960.<ref name="BBC">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50017409|title=Alexei Leonov: First person to walk in space dies aged 85|website=BBC News|date=11 October 2019|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref> As with most cosmonauts, Leonov was a member of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]. His [[Extra-vehicular activity|walk in space]] was originally to have taken place on the [[Voskhod 1]] mission, but this was cancelled, and the historic event happened on the [[Voskhod 2]] flight instead.{{Sfn|Hall|Shayler|2003|pp=332–333}} He was outside the spacecraft for 12 minutes and nine seconds on 18 March 1965, connected to the craft by a {{convert|4.8|m|adj=on}} tether.<ref name="BBC" />
At the end of the spacewalk, Leonov's spacesuit had inflated in the vacuum of space to the point where he could not re-enter the airlock.<ref name="BBC" /> He opened a valve to allow some of the suit's pressure to bleed off and was barely able to get back inside the capsule.<ref name="BBC" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://gizmodo.com/50-years-ago-the-first-spacewalk-nearly-ended-in-trage-1692303108|title=50 Years Ago, The First Spacewalk Nearly Ended in Tragedy|first=Mika|last=McKinnon|website=Gizmodo|access-date=28 January 2018|date=18 March 2015}}</ref> While on the mission, Leonov drew a small sketch of an orbital sunrise, the first work of art made in outer space.<ref>{{Cite web|date=31 August 2015|title=First picture drawn in space to appear in cosmonauts show in London|url=http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/31/first-picture-space-cosmonauts-science-museum-alexei-leonov|access-date=20 November 2021|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref> Leonov had spent eighteen months undergoing [[weightlessness]] training for the mission.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/events/2015/oosa_leonov.html|title=Cosmonaut Leonov recalls life-threatening challenges during historical space walk|publisher=[[United Nations Information Service Vienna|UNIS Vienna]]|year=2015|access-date=12 October 2019}}</ref>

In 1968, Leonov was selected to be commander of a circumlunar [[Soyuz 7K-L1]] flight. This was cancelled because of delays in achieving a reliable circumlunar flight (only the later [[Zond 7]] and [[Zond 8]] members of the programme were successful) and the [[Apollo 8]] mission had already achieved that step in the [[Space Race]]. He was also selected to be the first Soviet person to land on the Moon, aboard the [[Soyuz 7K-L3|LOK]]/[[N1 (rocket)|N1]] spacecraft.{{Sfn|Hall|Shayler|2003|pp=332–333}} This project was also cancelled. (The design required a spacewalk between lunar vehicles, something that contributed to his selection.) Leonov was to have been commander of the 1971 [[Soyuz 11]] mission to [[Salyut 1]], the first crewed space station, but his crew was replaced with the backup after one of the members, cosmonaut [[Valery Kubasov]], was suspected to have contracted [[tuberculosis]] (the other member was [[Pyotr Kolodin]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.americaspace.com/2014/02/20/valeri-kubasov-veteran-astp-cosmonaut-dies-aged-79/|title=Valeri Kubasov, Veteran ASTP Cosmonaut, Dies Aged 79|first=Ben|last=Evans|date=20 February 2014|access-date=11 October 2019|website=America Space}}</ref>

Leonov was to have commanded the next mission to [[Salyut 1]], but this was scrapped after the deaths of the Soyuz 11 crew members, and the space station was lost.{{sfn|Hall|Shayler|2003|p=173}} The next two Salyuts (actually the military [[Almaz]] station) were lost at launch or failed soon after, and Leonov's crew stood by. By the time [[Salyut 4]] reached orbit, Leonov had been switched to a more prestigious project.{{Sfn|Hall|Shayler|2003|p=210}}{{sfn|Harland|Catchpole|2002|p=77}}

Leonov's second trip into space was as commander of [[Soyuz 19]], the Soviet half of the 1975 [[Apollo-Soyuz mission]]—the first joint space mission between the Soviet Union and the United States.{{Sfn|Hall|Shayler|2003|p=210}}{{sfn|Dicati|2017|p=61}}
During the project Leonov became lasting friends with the US commander [[Thomas P. Stafford]], with Leonov being the godfather of Stafford's younger children.<ref name="cnn">{{cite web|author=Kellie Morgan|date=15 July 2015|title=How historic handshake in space brought superpowers closer|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/15/world/space-handshake-anniversary/index.html|access-date=13 June 2018|publisher=CNN}}</ref><ref name="ns">{{cite web|date=17 July 2015|title=Apollo–Soyuz: A cold war handshake in space, 40 years on|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27910-apollosoyuz-a-cold-war-handshake-in-space-40-years-on/|access-date=13 June 2018|publisher=New Scientist}}</ref> Stafford gave a eulogy in Russian at Leonov's funeral in October 2019.<ref>{{cite web|date=15 October 2019|title=Russia bids farewell to first man who walked in space|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-bids-farewell-to-first-man-who-walked-in-space/ar-AAIOaK1|publisher=MSN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=15 October 2019|title=Russia buries cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, first human to walk in space|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-cosmonaut-funeral-idUSKBN1WU24V|access-date=17 February 2021}}</ref>

From 1976 to 1982, Leonov was the commander of the cosmonaut team ("Chief Cosmonaut") and deputy director of the [[Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center]], where he oversaw crew training. He also edited the cosmonaut newsletter ''Neptune''. He retired in 1992.{{Sfn|Hall|Shayler|2003|pp=332–333}}

<gallery widths="200px" heights="160px">
File:FirstSpaceWalk.png|March 1965, the first space walk
File:Portrait of ASTP crews - restoration.jpg|alt=The five crew members of ASTP sitting around a miniature model of their spacecraft|The [[Apollo–Soyuz Test Project|Apollo-Soyuz]] crew in 1975
File:ASTP handshake - cropped.jpg|The historic handshake between Leonov and [[Thomas P. Stafford|Tom Stafford]]
File:Astronaut Donald K. Slayton and cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov in the Soyuz Orbital Module.jpg|Leonov (left) with [[Deke Slayton]] in the Soyuz spacecraft
</gallery>

== Later life and death ==
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Leonov was an accomplished artist whose published books include albums of his artistic works and works he did in collaboration with his friend [[:ru:Соколов, Андрей Константинович (художник)|Andrei Sokolov]]. Leonov took coloured pencils and paper into space, where he sketched the Earth, becoming the first [[Space art#Art in space|artist in space]], and drew portraits of the Apollo astronauts who flew with him during the 1975 [[Apollo–Soyuz Test Project]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_history/Alexei_Leonov_The_artistic_spaceman|title=Alexei Leonov, the Artistic Spaceman|website=ESA|access-date=17 October 2018|date=4 October 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iaaa.org/gallery/rudaux/|title=Alexei Leonov: winner of the 2005 IAAA Lucien Rudaux Memorial Award|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701235359/http://www.iaaa.org/gallery/rudaux/|archive-date=1 July 2007 |url-status=live|access-date=2 July 2007}}</ref>

[[Arthur C. Clarke]] wrote in his notes to his 1982 novel ''[[2010: Odyssey Two]]'' that, after a 1968 screening of ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', Leonov pointed out to him that the alignment of the Moon, Earth, and Sun shown in the opening is essentially the same as that in Leonov's 1967 painting ''[[:File:Aleksei Leonov - Near the Moon.jpg|Near the Moon]]'', although the painting's diagonal framing of the scene was not replicated in the film. Clarke kept an autographed sketch of this painting—which Leonov made after the screening—hanging on his office wall.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Clarke|first=Arthur C.|date=1982|title=2010: Odyssey Two|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LUoqAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT12|location=New York|publisher=RosettaBooks|isbn=9780795324826|pages=xvii–xviii|chapter=Author's Note|oclc=846909138|postscript=. Clarke describes the painting itself in Chapter 12 of the book.}}</ref> Clarke dedicated ''2010: Odyssey Two'' to Leonov and Soviet physicist [[Andrei Sakharov]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/11/16/the-galactic-dreamer-returns/19a59edb-f654-48e9-99fb-42aa506c954c/|title=The Galactic Dreamer Returns|last=Suplee|first=Curt|date=16 November 1982|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref> The fictional spaceship in the book is named ''Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/02/arts/scince-facts-help-propel-science-fiction-in-the-film-2010.html|title=Science Facts Help Propel Science Fiction in the Film ''2010''|last=Broad|first=William J.|date=2 December 1984|work=The New York Times|access-date=11 October 2019|language=en-US}}</ref>

Together with Valentin Selivanov, Leonov wrote the script for the 1980 science fiction film ''[[The Orion Loop]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.kaliningrad.kp.ru/daily/24271.4/466793/|title=Алексей Леонов: 'Выбирать актеров меня просил Михалков'|trans-title=Alexei Leonov: 'Mikhalkov asked me to choose actors'|last=Abibulaev|first=Valery|date=2 April 2009|newspaper=Kaliningrad.kp.ru -|language=ru|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref>

[[File:Aleksei Leonov 19 April 2016.jpg|thumb|270px|Leonov at a meeting in the [[Federation Council (Russia)|Federation Council]], 2016]]
Leonov was the head of the [[Banner of Peace]] in Space project from 1990 until his death.

Leonov retired in 1991 and lived in [[Moscow]] in his final years. He had been in reserve since March 1992. In 1992–1993, he was director of space programs at Chetek. Leonov was an advisor to the First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Moscow-based [[Alfa-Bank]], and in 2001, vice-president of Alfa-Bank.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://alfabank.com/news/aleksei-leonov-and-alexander-gafin-become-members-of-the-american-pushkin-academy-of-art/ |title=Aleksei Leonov and Alexander Gafin become members of the American Pushkin Academy of Art |date=23 February 2001 |work=Alfa-Bank |access-date=8 July 2007 |archive-date=6 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221106230820/https://alfabank.com/news/aleksei-leonov-and-alexander-gafin-become-members-of-the-american-pushkin-academy-of-art/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a member of the [[United Russia]] party since 18 December 2002 and a member of the party's Supreme Council.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://er.ru/persons/supreme_council/ |title=Высший совет Партии |trans-title=Supreme Council of the Party |publisher=United Russia |accessdate=25 February 2018 |archive-date=21 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221140421/http://er.ru/persons/supreme_council/}}</ref> He received recognition as an artist (he collaborated with [[:ru:Соколов, Андрей Константинович (художник)|Andrei Sokolov]]), and his works are widely exhibited and published.<ref>[http://visualrian.ru/ru/site/gallery/index/id/2289328/context/%7B%22feature%22%3A%22343354%22%7D/#2289326 Открытие выставки «Планета Вернадского» в Геологическом музее им. В.&nbsp;И.&nbsp;Вернадского Фото архив РИА новости]</ref>

In 2004, Leonov and former American astronaut [[David Scott]] began work on a dual memoir covering the history of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Titled ''Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race'', it was published in 2006. [[Neil Armstrong]] and [[Tom Hanks]] both wrote introductions to the book.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://us.macmillan.com/twosidesofthemoon/alexeileonov/9780312308667|title=Two Sides of the Moon {{!}} Alexei Leonov {{!}} Macmillan|website=US Macmillan|language=en-US|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref>

Leonov was interviewed by [[Francis French (author)|Francis French]] for the 2007 book ''[[Into That Silent Sea]]'' by [[Colin Burgess (author)|Colin Burgess]] and French.{{sfn|French|Burgess|2007|p=396}}

Leonov died in Moscow on 11 October 2019 after a long illness. His funeral took place on 15 October. He was 85<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a29438758/alexei-leonov-first-man-spacewalk-obituary/|title=Alexei Leonov, the First Man to Walk In Space, Has Died|last=Leman|first=Jennifer|date=11 October 2019|website=Popular Mechanics|language=en-US|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref> and the last living member of the five cosmonauts in the [[Voskhod programme]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/31/first-picture-space-cosmonauts-science-museum-alexei-leonov|title=First picture drawn in space to appear in cosmonauts show in London|last=Brown|first=Mark|date=31 August 2015|work=The Guardian|access-date=11 October 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> He was survived by his wife Svetlana Dozenko, daughter Oksana, and two grandchildren; his other daughter, Viktoria, died in 1996.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/22/alexei-leonov-obituary Alexei Leonov obituary] The Guardian, 22 October 2019.</ref>

== Legacy ==
[[File:Anton Shkaplerov and Alexei Leonov October 2011.jpg|thumb|right|Alexei Leonov (right) shares a moment with [[Anton Shkaplerov]] (left) in October 2011.]]

* In 1966, in the town [[Balashov (town)|Balashov]] in the Saratov region, the A. A. Leonov School of Young Cosmonauts (школа юных космонавтов имени А. А. Леонова) was opened. Future pilots were trained in this school, and students learned to fly an airplane<ref>Саратовская область. Город Балашов. Школа юных космонавтов // журнал "Народное образование", № 4, 1976 стр.127 и 4-я стр. обложки</ref>
* Worried about the Siberian wildlife, namely bears and wolves, while awaiting pick-up after landing, Alexei Leonov inspired the [[TP-82 Cosmonaut survival pistol]], which was regularly carried by Cosmonaut expeditions from 1986 to 2007.
* The [[Leonov (crater)|Leonov crater]], near [[Mare Moscoviense]] (''Sea of Moscow'') on the far side of the Moon, was named after Leonov in 1970.<ref>[https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/3352 Leonov], ''Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature'', International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36981911/the_boston_globe/|title=Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins on Moon again–as Names|last1=McElheny|first1=Victor K.|newspaper=The Boston Globe|location=Boston, Massachusetts|date=15 August 1970|page=16|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
*9533 Aleksejleonov, an asteroid first observed in 1981, was named for him.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=9533|title=9533 Aleksejleonov (1981 SA7)|website=JPL Small-Body Database|access-date=12 October 2019}}</ref>
* In the 1982 book ''[[2010: Odyssey Two]]'' by [[Arthur C. Clarke]] the Soviet spaceship ''Alexei Leonov'' is named after the cosmonaut. The book is dedicated to Leonov and [[Andrei Sakharov]].
* Leonov, along with [[Rusty Schweickart]], established the [[Association of Space Explorers]] in 1985. Membership is open to all people who have orbited the Earth.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ptleader.com/stories/fabian-named-distinguished-member-of-association-of-space-explorers,53710|title=Fabian named distinguished member of Association of Space Explorers|last=Arthur|first=Allison|date=23 November 2010|website=Port Townsend Leader|language=en|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref>
* Leonov created the image of [[Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication|Stephen Hawking for the medal]], which was established by the [[Starmus Festival]]. Since 2015, it has been awarded for works contributing to the promotion of scientific knowledge in various fields, such as music, art, cinema. The portrait of Hawking painted by the astronaut is depicted on the front side of the "scientific Oscar". The reverse depicts Leonov's first spacewalk and [[Brian May]]'s guitar, symbolizing the two main components of the festival. Leonov created the design for the reverse side in close cooperation with May.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=11 September 2022 |title=Премьера фильма о космонавте Алексее Леонове состоялась на фестивале Starmus в Ереване |url=https://life.ru/p/1523020 |access-date=3 January 2023 |website=Life.ru |language=ru}}</ref>
* The 2017 film ''[[The Age of Pioneers]]'' ({{langx|ru|Vremya Pervykh}}) is based on Leonov's account of the Voskhod 2 mission. Leonov was portrayed by [[Yevgeny Mironov (actor)|Yevgeny Mironov]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/first-man-conduct-spacewalk-alexei-leonov-dies-doc-1lb9i31|title=First man to conduct spacewalk, Alexei Leonov, dies|website=AFP.com|date=16 January 2012|language=en|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/10/11/alexei-leonov-the-first-human-to-walk-in-space-has-died-relive-his-historic-spacewalk-through-archival-footage|title=Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, has died. Relive his historic spacewalk through archival footage|date=11 October 2019|website=Meduza|access-date=22 February 2020}}</ref> He was a technical adviser for the movie; the director cut all scenes featuring Gagarin–about 40 minutes of film–so Leonov could be the focus.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rbth.com/arts/330207-3-biopic-space-films|title=3 biopic space films about the USSR's journey into the unknown|last1=Egorov|first1=Boris|date=12 April 2019|website=Russia Beyond|access-date=12 October 2019}}</ref>
* The song "E.V.A." by [[Public Service Broadcasting (band)|Public Service Broadcasting]] on their 2015 album, ''[[The Race for Space (album)|The Race for Space]]'', references Leonov becoming the first man to undertake extravehicular activity in space.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-04-10/british-musical-duo-public-service-broadcasting-takes-us-race-space|title=British musical duo Public Service Broadcasting takes us on the race for space|last=Porzucki|first=Nina|date=10 April 2015|website=PRI|access-date=12 October 2019}}</ref>
* In the 2019 [[alternate history]] television series, ''[[For All Mankind (TV series)|For All Mankind]]'', Leonov is portrayed as the first person to walk on the Moon.<ref>{{cite web |title=SPACE RACE NOV. 6, 2023 A Decade-by-Decade For All Mankind Catch-Up Guide |date=6 November 2023 |url=https://www.vulture.com/2023/11/for-all-mankind-catch-up-guide.html |publisher=Vulture}}</ref>
* ''Leonov'', a 2020 album by BlackWeald, is a [[dark ambient]] interpretation of the Voskhod 2 mission.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blackweald.bandcamp.com/album/leonov-2|title=Leonov by BlackWeald|date=28 April 2020|website=PRI|access-date=24 September 2021}}</ref>
* "Orbital Sunrise," an essay by [[John Green]], focuses in part on the sketch Leonov made during his 1965 mission. It was released on 26 August 2021 as part of Green's [[podcast]], ''[[The Anthropocene Reviewed]].'' Later, it was posted separately on the YouTube channel [[vlogbrothers]], and included in the ''Anthropocene Reviewed'' book.
* At the 2022 on [[Starmus Festival|Starmus]] festival, held for the first time in the post-Soviet space, in Armenia, the premiere of the documentary '''film "Space Inside"''' about Alexei Leonov took place. It was introduced by the cosmonaut's daughter, Oksana Leonova. It is based on the last interview of the pioneer.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=В Ереване на фестивале Starmus состоялась премьера фильма о космонавте Леонове – ТАСС |url=https://tass.ru/kultura/15719243 |access-date=3 January 2023 |website=[[TASS]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=7 September 2022 |title=Михаил Швыдкой – о том, почему фильм о космонавте Алексее Леонове "Космос внутри" – одно из важнейших событий программы VI фестиваля STARMUS |url=https://rg.ru/2022/09/07/kosmos-vnutri.html |access-date=3 January 2023 |website=Российская газета}}</ref>

=== Soviet/Russian awards and honours ===
[[File:Орденом «За заслуги перед Отечеством» III степени награждён лётчик-космонавт СССР Алексей Леонов.jpeg|thumb|Leonov receiving the [[Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"]], 3rd class, from [[Vladimir Putin]] in 2014]]
[[File:Aleksei Leonov 19 April 2016 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Leonov in 2016, wearing his two [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] medals]]

* Twice [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] (23 March 1965<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37071989/the_fresno_bee_the_republican/|title=Moscow Gives Greatest Gala Welcome to Russia's Newest Cosmonauts|last1=Bradsher|first1=Henry S.|date=23 March 1965|newspaper=The Fresno Bee|location=Fresno, California|page=5|via=Newspapers.com|agency=Associated Press}}</ref> and 22 July 1975<ref name=july75>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37072021/standardspeaker/|title=Astronaut Foresees Space Shuttle Age|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=Standard-Speaker|location=Hazleton, Pennsylvania|date=22 July 1975|page=2|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>)
* Two [[Order of Lenin|Orders of Lenin]] (23 March 1965<ref name=mar65>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37072078/the_tennessean/|title=Soviet Spacemen Get Big Welcome|last1=Shabad|first1=Theodore|date=24 March 1965|agency=The New York Times News Service|newspaper=The Tennessean|location=Nashville, Tennessee|page=3|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and 22 July 1975<ref name=july75 />)
* [[Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR]] (1965)<ref name=mar65 />
* [[Merited Master of Sport of the USSR]] (1965)<ref name="astronaut.ru" />
* [[Order of the Red Star]] (1961)<ref name="astronaut.ru" />
* [[Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR]], 3rd class (1975)<ref name="astronaut.ru" />
* [[Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"]]
* [[Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"]]
* [[Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"]]
* [[Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"]]
* [[Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"]]
* [[Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"]]
* [[Medal "For Impeccable Service"|Medals "For Impeccable Service"]], 1st, 2nd and 3rd classes
* [[Lenin Komsomol Prize]] (1980)<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://tass.ru/info/6989689|title=Биография космонавта Алексея Леонова|trans-title=Biography of cosmonaut Alexei Leonov|website=[[TASS|ТАСС]]|date=11 October 2019|access-date=11 October 2019|language=ru}}</ref><!-- - for the book-album Man and the Universe (with AK Sokolov) -->
* [[USSR State Prize]] (1981)<ref name=":2" /><!-- (with AV Filipchenko) -->
* [[Order For Merit to the Fatherland|Order for Merit to the Fatherland]], 4th class (2 March 2000)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kremlin.ru/acts/bank/15226|title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 02.03.2000 г. № 457|language=ru|trans-title=Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 2 March 2000, No. 457|website=Kremlin}}</ref><!-- - for his contribution to the state in the development of manned space flight -->
* [[Order of Friendship]] (12 April 2011)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://static.kremlin.ru/media/events/files/41d3690289ddb8c39e7d.pdf|title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 12 апреля 2011 года № 434 "О награждении орденом Дружбы"|trans-title=Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 12 April 2011 No. 434 "On awarding the Order of Friendship"|language=ru|website=Kremlin}}</ref><!-- - for outstanding contribution to the development of the national manned space flight and many years of fruitful social activities -->
* [[Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"]], 3rd class (22 May 2014)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/38476|title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 22.05.2014 г. № 357|trans-title=Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 22 May 2014 No. 357|language=ru|website=Kremlin}}</ref>
* [[Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"]], 1st class (29 May 2019)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201905300006?index=0&rangeSize=1|title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 29.05.2019 № 240|date=30 May 2019|trans-title=Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 29 May 2019 No. 240|language=ru|website=Official Internet Portal legal information|access-date=12 October 2019|archive-date=5 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605003409/http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201905300006?index=0&rangeSize=1|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Foreign awards ===
*[[Hero of Socialist Labour]] (People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1965)<ref name="astronaut.ru">{{Cite web|url=http://www.astronaut.ru/as_rusia/vvs/text/leonov.htm|title=Алексей Архипович Леонов|website=Космическая энциклопедия ASTROnote [Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote]|trans-title=Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011123907/http://www.astronaut.ru/as_rusia/vvs/text/leonov.htm?reload_coolmenus|archive-date=11 October 2019|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref>
* [[Order of Georgi Dimitrov]] (People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1965)<ref name="astronaut.ru" />
* {{Ill|Artur Becker Medal|de|Artur-Becker-Medaille|ru|Медаль «Артур Беккер»}} ([[East Germany|German Democratic Republic]], 1965)<ref name="astronaut.ru" />
* [[Order of Karl Marx]] (German Democratic Republic, 1965)<ref name="astronaut.ru" />
* [[Order of the Flag of the Republic of Hungary]] (1965)<ref name="astronaut.ru" />
* [[Hero of Labor (Vietnam)|Hero of Labor]] (Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1966)<ref name="astronaut.ru" />
* [[Order of Civil Merit of the Syrian Arab Republic|Order of Civil Merit]], 1st class (Syria, 1966)<ref name="astronaut.ru" />
* [[Order of Merit (Ukraine)|Order of Merit]], 3rd class (Ukraine, 2011)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/13430.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709192141/http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/13430.html|archive-date=9 July 2014|url-status=dead |title=УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ № 450/2011|trans-title=Declaration of the President of Ukraine No. 450/2011|language=uk|website=Administration of the President of Ukraine}}</ref><!-- 12 April 2011 – for his significant personal contribution to the development of space industry, advances in the creation and implementation of space systems and technologies, professional excellence -->

=== Public organizations ===
[[File:Stephen Hawking Medals (28190426642).jpg|thumb|Leonov, [[Stephen Hawking]], and [[Brian May]] at the [[Starmus Festival]], 2016]]
[[File:Soviet Union-1965-Stamp-0.10. Voskhod-2. First Spacewalk.jpg|right|thumb|300x300px|Alexei Leonov on 1965 USSR 10 kopek stamp.]]

* 1975 Gold Space Medal from the [[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale]] (FAI) in 1976. FAI created an exception which allowed [[Thomas P. Stafford]] to be awarded it alongside him; typically the award is restricted to one person per year.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30486182/the_bakersfield_californian/|title=Edwards Commander Awarded Medals|date=1 October 1976|newspaper=The Bakersfield Californian|location=Bakersfield, California|page=9|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>{{sfn|Ritchie|1984|p=282}}
* [[International Space Hall of Fame]] (1976)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=17|title=Alexei A. Leonov, USSR, Inducted in 1976|access-date=12 October 2019|website=New Mexico Museum of Space History|archive-date=16 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416053759/http://www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=17|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[International Air & Space Hall of Fame]], inducted in 2001, along with [[Valeri Kubasov]], [[Vance D. Brand]], [[Deke Slayton]], and [[Thomas P. Stafford]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sandiegoairandspace.org/hall-of-fame/honoree/apollo-soyuz-crew|title=Apollo–Soyuz Crew|website=San Diego Air & Space Museum|access-date=14 October 2019}}</ref>
* Ludwig Nobel Prize (2007)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tvkultura.ru/article/show/article_id/45018/|title=Премию Людвига Нобеля возродили|website=tvkultura.ru|language=ru|access-date=11 October 2019|archive-date=11 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011172144/https://tvkultura.ru/article/show/article_id/45018/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://iz.ru/news/584789|title=История возрожденной российской премии Людвига Нобеля — история страны|last=Воронов|first=Алексей|date=31 March 2015|website=Известия|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref>
* [[Elmer A. Sperry Award]] (US, 2008), with [[Konstantin Bushuyev]], Thomas P. Stafford, and [[Glynn Lunney]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sperryaward.org/awardbooklets/2008%20Sperry%20Award%20Booklet.pdf|title=The Elmer A. Sperry Award|date=2008|website=Sperryaward.org|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730083046/http://www.sperryaward.org/awardbooklets/2008%20Sperry%20Award%20Booklet.pdf|archive-date=30 July 2019|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref>
* Order of [[Saint Constantine the Great]] (Union of the Golden Knights of the Order of St. Constantine the Great)<ref name="astronaut.ru" />
* Order "Golden Star" (Foundation Heroes of the Soviet Union and Heroes of the Russian Federation)<ref name="astronaut.ru" />
* Order the "Pride of Russia" (Foundation for the "Pride of the Fatherland", 2007)<ref name="astronaut.ru" />
* National Award "To the Glory of the Fatherland" in the "Glory to Russia" class (International Academy of Social Sciences and International Academy of patronage, 2008)<ref name="astronaut.ru" />
* Order of "the Glory of the Fatherland", 2nd class (2008)<ref name="astronaut.ru" />
* 2011 co-founder and the member of board of directors of the international festival of science, space and music [[Starmus Festival|Starmus]] together with astrophysicist [[Garik Israelian|Garik Israelyan]], musician of the band [[Queen (band)|Queen]] [[Brian May]], scientist-educator [[Stephen Hawking]], a number of astronauts and Nobel laureates.<ref>{{Cite web |title=STARMUS Festival |url=https://www.starmus.com/festival/1 |access-date=3 January 2023 |website=www.starmus.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" />

=== Other awards and titles ===
* Commander of the [[Order of Saint Anna]] III degree (2008), by [[Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia]]<ref name="rg.ru">{{cite web|url=https://rg.ru/2014/02/05/orden-site.html|title=Кому и за что вручается Орден Святой Анны|website=Rossiyskaya Gazeta|date=5 February 2014 |trans-title=Who and for what is awarded the Order of St. Anne|language=ru|access-date=12 October 2019}}</ref>
* Commander of the [[Order of Saint Anna]] II degree (2011), by [[Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia]]<ref name="rg.ru" />
* Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rah.ru/exhibitions/detail.php?ID=29058&sphrase_id=63202|title="Earth and Space by Alexei Leonov." On the 80th anniversary of the legendary astronaut|work=Russian Academy of Arts|year=2014|language=ru}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Attempted assassination of Leonid Brezhnev]] (Moscow, 1969), in which a gunman fired 14 shots at a limousine carrying Leonov and other cosmonauts.

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== Sources ==
* {{cite book|title=The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-84824-2|year=2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rrdVPtCNL9AC&pg=PA55|last1=Burgess|first1=Colin|last2=Hall|first2=Rex}}
* {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O4LgDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA61|title=Stamping the Earth from Space|last=Dicati|first=Renato|date=10 January 2017|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-20756-8|language=en}}
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_8l3y1l2daoC&pg=PA396|title=Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961–1965|last1=French|first1=Francis|last2=Burgess|first2=Colin|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-8032-2639-5}}
* {{cite book|last1=Hall|first1=Rex|last2=Shayler|first2=David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbGchpi1HP8C&pg=PA173|title=Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft|publisher=Springer|year=2003|location=London|oclc=840379365|isbn=978-1-85233-657-8}}
* {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zvLUZT8PuGgC&pg=PA77|title=Creating the International Space Station|last1=Harland|first1=David M.|last2=Catchpole|first2=John E.|date=6 February 2002|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-85233-202-0|language=en}}
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BYQ9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA282|title=Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1976: A Chronology|publisher=NASA|year=1984|last1=Ritchie|first1=Eleanor H.}}
* {{Cite book|last1=Scott|first1=David|author-link=David Scott|first2=Alexei|last2=Leonov|others=with Christine Toomey|title=Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race|year=2004|publisher=[[St. Martin's Griffin]]|isbn=978-0-312-30866-7|location=New York}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book|last1=Leonov|first1=Alexey Arkhipovich|author-link1=Alexei Leonov|first2=Andreĭ K|last2=Sokolov |script-title=ru:Ждите Нас, Звезды|title=Zhdite Nas, Zvezdy: The Stars Are Awaiting Us|language=ru, en|publisher=Мол. Гвардия (Mol. Gvardii︠a︡ )Moscow|year=1967|type=National government publication <!-- url2=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-xhHAAACAAJ -->|oclc=8962163}}
* {{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_9035/index.html|title=The First Spacewalk How the first human to take steps in outer space nearly didn't return to Earth|last1=Rincon|first1=Paul|last2=Lachmann|first2=Michael|date=13 October 2014|work=BBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015060353/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_9035/index.html|archive-date=15 October 2014|access-date=19 October 2014|ref=First-Spacewalk}}
* "Testing of rocket and space technology – the business of my life" Events and facts – [[Arkady Ostashev|A. I. Ostashev]], [[Korolyov, Moscow Oblast|Korolyov]], 2001.[https://web.archive.org/web/20091027053542/http://geocities.com/spkorolev/PAGE2 New Page 1];
* [http://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/chertok/kniga-1/01.html "Rockets and people"] – [[Boris Chertok|B. E. Chertok]], M: "mechanical engineering", 1999. {{ISBN|5-217-02942-0}} {{in lang|ru}}
* "Bank of the Universe" – edited by Boltenko A. C., [[Kyiv]], 2014., publishing house "Phoenix", {{ISBN|978-966-136-169-9}}
* [[Arkady Ostashev|A.I. Ostashev]], ''Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov – The Genius of the 20th Century'' — 2010 M. of Public Educational Institution of Higher Professional Training MGUL {{ISBN|978-5-8135-0510-2}}.
* ''S. P. Korolev. Encyclopedia of life and creativity'' – edited by C. A. Lopota, [[S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia|RSC Energia. S. P. Korolev]], 2014 {{ISBN|978-5-906674-04-3}}

== External links ==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041118040022/http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/shuttle-mir/multimedia/video/v-007.mpg A video of his spacewalk]
*[http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/Voskhod2/Voskhod2.htm The Voskhod 2 mission revisited]
*[http://scifiart.narod.ru/ Science fiction art] by Leonov and Sokolov. Extensive gallery, with annotation. {{in lang|ru}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043952/http://www.baikonuradm.ru/index.php?mod=180 The official website of the city administration Baikonur – Honorary citizens of Baikonur]
*[http://dai.ly/x2hnpjp ''Alexeï Léonov, the Spacewalker''], Vladimir Kozlov's film, France-Russia, 2011

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