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{{Short description|Soviet cosmonaut (1941–1988)}}
{{distinguish|Anatoly Nikolayevich Levchenko}}
{{Infobox astronaut
| name        = Anatoly Semyonovich Levchenko
| image       = Anatoly Semyonovich Levchenko.jpg
| caption     = Levchenko in 1987
| type        = Cosmonaut
| nationality = [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1941|5|5}}
| birth_place = [[Krasnokutsk]], [[Ukrainian SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1988|8|6|1941|5|5}}
| death_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] 
| occupation  = [[Test pilot|Test Pilot]]
| rank        = [[Captain (land)|Captain]], [[Soviet Air Force]]
| selection   = [[List of astronauts by selection#1988|1988 Cosmonaut Group]]
| time        = 7d 21h 58m
| mission     = [[Mir LII-1]] {{nobr|([[Soyuz TM-4]] / [[Soyuz TM-3]])}}
| insignia    = 
| awards      = [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
}}

'''Anatoly Semyonovich Levchenko''' ({{langx|ru|Анатолий Семёнович Левченко}}; May 5, 1941 – August 6, 1988) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[cosmonaut]] in the [[Buran programme]].

Trained as a test pilot and selected as a cosmonaut on 12 July 1980,<ref name=SFbio>{{cite web|url=http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/levchenko_anatoli.htm|title=Cosmonaut Biography: Anatoli Levchenko|publisher=spacefacts.de|access-date=26 November 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101221221621/http://spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/levchenko_anatoli.htm| archive-date= 21 December 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> Levchenko was planned to be the back-up commander of the first [[Buran program|Buran]] space shuttle flight. As part of his preparations, he also accomplished test-flights with Buran's counterpart [[OK-GLI]] aircraft.

In March 1987,  Levchenko began extensive training for a Soyuz spaceflight, intended to give him some experience in space.<ref name=VisBook>{{cite book | last = Hendrickx | first = Bart | author2 = Bert Vis | title = Energiya-Buran : The Soviet Space Shuttle | publisher = Praxis | date = 2007-10-04 | pages = 526 | isbn = 978-0-387-69848-9 }}</ref> In December 1987, he occupied the third seat aboard the spacecraft [[Soyuz TM-4]] to the [[space station]] [[Mir]], and returned to Earth about a week later on [[Soyuz TM-3]]. His mission is sometimes called [[Mir LII-1]], after the [[Gromov Flight Research Institute]] shorthand.<ref name=EA-LII>{{cite web|url=http://www.astronautix.com/flights/mirlii1.htm|title=Mir LII-1|publisher=[[Encyclopedia Astronautica]]|access-date=15 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130020104/http://astronautix.com/flights/mirlii1.htm|archive-date=30 November 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the year following his spaceflight, Anatoly Levchenko died of a [[brain tumor]], in the [[Nikolay Burdenko]] Neurosurgical Institute in [[Moscow]].<ref name=EA-bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.astronautix.com/astros/levhenko.htm|title=Levchenko|publisher=Encyclopedia Astronautica|access-date=26 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101020160835/http://astronautix.com/astros/levhenko.htm|archive-date=20 October 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> 

He was married with one child.<ref name=SFbio/>

==Awards==
He was awarded the titles of [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] and [[Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR]] and the [[Order of Lenin]].

==Commemoration==
* Anatoly Levchenko is buried at the [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175342824 Bykovskoye Memorial Cemetery] in [[Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast|Zhukovsky]]. 
* There is a memorial plate with his image installed on the wall of house 2 at Chkalova Street where Anatoly once lived in Zhukovsky.

==See also==
*[[List of notable brain tumor patients]]

==References==
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[[Category:1941 births]]
[[Category:1988 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Kharkiv Oblast]]
[[Category:Heroes of the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Soviet Air Force officers]]
[[Category:Soviet cosmonauts]]
[[Category:Buran program]]
[[Category:Soviet test pilots]]
[[Category:Gromov Flight Research Institute employees]]
[[Category:Mir crew members]]


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