据俄罗斯卫星通讯社11日消息，进行太空行走的第一人——苏联宇航员阿列克谢·列昂诺夫去世，享年85岁。 Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who was the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85 after a long illness. The Russian space agency Roscosmos said it was saddened to announce the death of "cosmonaut No 11" who was twice decorated with the country's top honor, the Hero of the Soviet Union. 1965年3月18日，列昂诺夫在“上升2号”飞船航天飞行期间实现了离舱12分钟的太空行走，是历史上首位进行太空行走的宇航员，曾两次获“苏联英雄”称号。 Leonov was a close friend of Yury Gagarin, who became the first human to go to outer space in 1961. Four years later, Leonov made history when he left a spacecraft during the Voskhod 2 mission for a spacewalk that lasted 12 minutes and nine seconds.
The flight and spacewalk were successful on the whole but his return to Earth nearly ended in tragedy when Leonov and another cosmonaut, Pavel Belyayev, crash-landed in Siberian woods. 1975年7月，列昂诺夫参加史上首次联合太空飞行——苏联联盟19号飞船与美国阿波罗号飞船实现对接，航天员们得以进入对方飞船。 据人民网2015年报道，列昂诺夫早在苏联时期就到过中国。
“现在许多国家都在进行太空探索，但只有3个国家有自己的宇宙飞船、自己的系统和自己的宇航员，这其中就包括中国。” 俄罗斯宇航员培训中心新闻处表示，阿列克谢·列昂诺夫的告别会和葬礼将于10月15日在梅季希一处公墓举行。 His assistant Natalia Filimonova told AFP that Leonov died at Moscow's Burdenko hospital after a long illness. "It's a huge tragedy for us all," said the wife of cosmonaut Boris Volynov, Tamara Volynova, who wrote a book about cosmonauts. "Alexei is a unique person," she told AFP. （中文综述自人民网、环球网、澎湃新闻等）