Editing Anatoly Solovyev (section)

==Military service==
He enrolled as a cadet in the Chernigov Higher Military School of Pilots in 1968. He joined the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPSU]] in 1971. He graduated from the Lenin Komsomol Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School in 1972,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/solovyev.html|title=NASA Biographical Data: Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev|publisher=jsc.nasa.gov|date=11 February 2015|accessdate=2017-11-01}}</ref> having flown the [[L-29]], [[MiG-15]]UTI and [[MiG-21]]. Subsequently, assigned to a reconnaissance air regiment in the Far East Aviation District<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gctc.ru/eng/biogr/default.htm|title=GCTC, Biographies of Cosmonauts: Solovyev, Anatoly Yakovlevich|publisher=Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre|accessdate=2017-10-31|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070920155646/http://www.gctc.ru/eng/biogr/default.htm|archivedate=2007-09-20}}</ref> flying the [[MiG-21]]R. In 1975 he was awarded the qualification "Military Pilot 1st Class".