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Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (23 March 1965 and 22 July 1975) Two Orders of Lenin (23 March 1965 and 22 July 1975) Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR (1965) Merited Master of Sport of the USSR (1965) Order of the Red Star (1961) Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class (1975) 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" Medals "For Impeccable Service", 1st, 2nd and 3rd classes Lenin Komsomol Prize (1980) USSR State Prize (1981) Order for Merit to the Fatherland, 4th class (2 March 2000) Order of Friendship (12 April 2011) Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (22 May 2014) Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class (29 May 2019)
=== Foreign awards === Hero of Socialist Labour (People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1965) Order of Georgi Dimitrov (People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1965) Artur Becker Medal (German Democratic Republic, 1965) Order of Karl Marx (German Democratic Republic, 1965) Order of the Flag of the Republic of Hungary (1965) Hero of Labor (Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1966) Order of Civil Merit, 1st class (Syria, 1966) Order of Merit, 3rd class (Ukraine, 2011)
=== Public organizations ===
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. International Space Hall of Fame (1976) International Air & Space Hall of Fame, inducted in 2001, along with Valeri Kubasov, Vance D. Brand, Deke Slayton, and Thomas P. Stafford Ludwig Nobel Prize (2007) Elmer A. Sperry Award (US, 2008), with Konstantin Bushuyev, Thomas P. Stafford, and Glynn Lunney Order of Saint Constantine the Great (Union of the Golden Knights of the Order of St. Constantine the Great) Order "Golden Star" (Foundation Heroes of the Soviet Union and Heroes of the Russian Federation) Order the "Pride of Russia" (Foundation for the "Pride of the Fatherland", 2007) 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) Order of "the Glory of the Fatherland", 2nd class (2008) 2011 co-founder and the member of board of directors of the international festival of science, space and music Starmus together with astrophysicist Garik Israelyan, musician of the band Queen Brian May, scientist-educator Stephen Hawking, a number of astronauts and Nobel laureates.
=== Stamps ===
Leonov's accomplishments in space were honored with issuance of stamps by numerous countries.
Alexey Leonov (first space walk) on Soviet Union stamp 10 kopeks (issued 1965) Space Flight of Voskhod 2 and Lt. Col. Alexei Leonov on Hungary (Magyar Posta) stamp (issued 1965) Apollo-Soyuz Test Project on Soviet Union 50 kopeks stamp (issued 1975) 50th anniversary of first space walk on Solomon Islands stamp $12 (issued 2015)
=== Other awards and titles === Commander of the Order of Saint Anna III degree (2008), by Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia Commander of the Order of Saint Anna II degree (2011), by Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts
== 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 ==
== References ==
== Sources == Burgess, Colin; Hall, Rex (2009). The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-387-84824-2. Dicati, Renato (10 January 2017). Stamping the Earth from Space. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-20756-8. French, Francis; Burgess, Colin (2007). Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961–1965. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-2639-5. Hall, Rex; Shayler, David (2003). Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft. London: Springer. ISBN 978-1-85233-657-8. OCLC 840379365. Harland, David M.; Catchpole, John E. (6 February 2002). Creating the International Space Station. Springer. ISBN 978-1-85233-202-0. Ritchie, Eleanor H. (1984). Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1976: A Chronology. NASA. Scott, David; Leonov, Alexei (2004). Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race. with Christine Toomey. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-0-312-30866-7.
== Further reading == Leonov, Alexey Arkhipovich; Sokolov, Andreĭ K (1967). Zhdite Nas, Zvezdy: The Stars Are Awaiting Us Ждите Нас, Звезды (National government publication) (in Russian and English). Мол. Гвардия (Mol. Gvardii︠a︡ )Moscow. OCLC 8962163. Rincon, Paul; Lachmann, Michael (13 October 2014). "The First Spacewalk How the first human to take steps in outer space nearly didn't return to Earth". BBC News. Archived from the original on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014. "Testing of rocket and space technology – the business of my life" Events and facts – A. I. Ostashev, Korolyov, 2001.New Page 1; "Rockets and people" – B. E. Chertok, M: "mechanical engineering", 1999. ISBN 5-217-02942-0 (in Russian) "Bank of the Universe" – edited by Boltenko A. C., Kyiv, 2014., publishing house "Phoenix", ISBN 978-966-136-169-9 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, RSC Energia. S. P. Korolev, 2014 ISBN 978-5-906674-04-3
== External links ==
A video of his spacewalk The Voskhod 2 mission revisited Science fiction art by Leonov and Sokolov. Extensive gallery, with annotation. (in Russian) The official website of the city administration Baikonur – Honorary citizens of Baikonur Alexeï Léonov, the Spacewalker, Vladimir Kozlov's film, France-Russia, 2011