Left-handed Russian Sokol KV-2 space suit glove, approximately 10″in length with blue anodized wrist ring measuring 4.25″in diameter, featuring an insulated nylon canvas outer surface and inner pressure glove with black leather palm and smooth thumb and fingers. The glove is marked on the inner wrist with serial number, “ГП-7А-111-0620112,” with a blue box obliterating the cosmonaut's initials. The glove's blue anodized aluminum wrist coupling, designed to attach it to the suit, is marked inside, “No. 20304 ЛЕВОЕ.” In fine condition, with general wear (presumably from use in training).
The consignor notes that this glove was originally manufactured for Irina Pronina, who served as backup to Svetlana Savitskaya for the Soyuz T-7 flight. Savitskaya would become the second woman in space during that flight. Pronina was scheduled to fly on Soyuz T-8, before she was replaced with cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov. She never flew in space. This glove was likely then repurposed for training use, given Pronina never flew and that her initials on the wrist have been covered with a square blue marking.
