Yevgeniy Savitskiy

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Yevgeniy Yakovlevich Savitzky (Russian: Евгений Яковлевич Савицкий; 24 December 1910 — 6 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.

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..