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Yevgeniy Savitskiy

Yevgeniy Yakovlevich Savitzky (Евгений Яковлевич Савицкий; 24 December 19106 April 1990) was a World War II fighter ace, 22 individual and 2 group victories, commander of the Airforce Corps, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal of Aviation. The asteroid 4303 Savitskij is named for him.

His daughter, Svetlana Savitskaya became Soviet cosmonaut who flew the Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova and the first woman ever to perform a space walk..

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