Savitskaya

British  

/ sæˈvɪtskaɪə /

noun

1. Svetlana (svɛtˈlɑːnə). born 1949, Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman to walk in space (1984). She was elected to the former Soviet parliament (1989)

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Example Sentences

Savitskaya met her husband while they were in the Russian army.

From Washington Times

Anastasia Savitskaya was from a city in southwestern Russia.

From Washington Times

Svetlana Savitskaya was the second female cosmonaut in 1982.

From Salon

The first woman spacewalker was the USSR's Svetlana Savitskaya, who worked outside the Salyut 7 space station for more than three hours with a male cosmonaut, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, on 25 July 1984.

From BBC

The giant leap for womankind took place almost 35 years after Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to do a spacewalk.

From The Guardian