CLASSIFICATION: 94/402.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 2.
SPACE FLIGHTS HOURS: 22 days 18 hours 43 min.
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: March 4, 1965, Balchash, Dzhezkazgan region, Kazakhstan.
NATIONALITY: Russian.
EDUCATION:
1982 – finish secondary school No.20, Akhtubinsk;
1978 - 1982 - studied at the youth radio school;
1979 - 1982 – studied at the young pilots school named after V. I. Patsayev attached to the Actubinsk higher flight school of civil aviation;
1986 – graduated from the Orieburgh Air Force pilots school named after I. S. Polbin with honors, qualification – officer with higher special military education, specialization-command tactical naval missile-carrying aviation;
1998 – graduated from the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy, first department of aircraft and engines, specialization- aircraft and air systems testing, pilot-engineer-researcher.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
from November 1986 – at the command of the Baltic fleet Air Force Commander-in-chief;
from December 11, 1986 – a pilot-in-command assistant;
from February 10, 1989 – a pilot-in-command of detached naval missile-carrying aviation regiment 12 of the Baltic fleet Air Force, Ostrov, Pskov region;
from June 15, 1989 – a pilot-in-commander of TU-16 air squadron of Guards naval missile-carrying air regiment 240 of the Baltic fleet, Bykhov, Mogilev region, BSSR;
from March 20, 1991 – a senior pilot of detached long- reconnaissance aviation regiment 15 of the Baltic fleet Air Force, Kaliningrad;
from July 1, 1991 – a senior pilot of Su-24M, from July 2, 1992 – a commander of aviation detachment of the State AD detached test center, Priozersk, Dzhezkazgan region, Kazakhstan;
from June 27, 1994 – a pilot in command, from January 6, 1995 – an air detachment commander of AD detached regiment 144 of A-50 aircraft (analogue of AVAKS system), Pechora.
DATE OF JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS (GROUP NUMBER, DATE):
July 28,1997 – by the State Interdepartmental Board decision recommended for the enrollment in the cosmonaut corps of the GCTC (the twelfth group);
June 24, 1998 – by the order of the Defence Minister of Russia was appointed a candidate for cosmonaut-tester of the cosmonaut corps of the GCTC;
from December 22, 1999 - a cosmonaut-tester.
RATING:1992 – a first-class military pilot,
2002 – a third-class cosmonaut,
2004 – a second-class cosmonaut.
SPACE FLIGHTS PERFORMED:
The first flight – from April 19 to May 1, 2001 – a mission specialist the Endeavor fifth crew (STS-100) on the ISS assembling program together K. Rominger (USA), D. Ashby (USA),
K. Hadfield (Canada), D. Phillips (USA), S. Parazynski (USA) and U. Guidoni (Italy). Flight duration: 11 days 21 hours 50 min. 00 sec.
The second flight – from October 30 to November10, 2002 – a flight engineer of the ISS fourth visiting crew aboard the Soyuz TMA-1 transport vehicle together with S. Zalyotin (crew commander) Frank De Vinne (flight engineer-1, ESA, Belgium). Flight duration: 10 days 20 hours 53 min.
AWARDS:Three commemorative medals.
CURRENT STATUS: 2003 – a colonel, commander of the cosmonaut detachment.

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