CLASSIFICATION: 2/79/309.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 3.
SPACE FLIGHT HOURS: 341 days 09 hours 49 min. 47 sec.
EVA OPERATIONS: 7.
TOTAL EVA DURATION: 41 hours 15 min.
PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: January7, 1951, Kargalyi village, Dzhampul district, Alma-Ata region, Kazakh SSR (Kazakhstan).
NATIONALITY: Kazakh .
EDUCATION:
1968 - graduated from the Alma-Ata secondary school No.58;
February 28, 1974 - graduated from the Riga Lenin Comsomol Institute of the civil aviation with the major of technical exploration of aviation radio equipment;
1973 - course of the political training attached to the institute;
1984 - graduated from the Alma-Ata youth army support air club;
1986 - completed training at the civil aviation training group No. 30. Having passed all the tests , first, at Alma-Ata, then at Moscow got the civil aviation pilot certificate;
1989 - graduated from the Uliyanovsk center for pilots, engineer-technician staff and air traffic controllers from the state – members of the Economic Cooperation Council and got an appropriate diploma and a qualification of the Tu-134 second pilot;
February 1993 - graduated from the Aktubinsk Higher pilots college and got engineer-pilot diploma;
2000 – was given a candidate degree of technical science. The subject of his thesis was the following: Estimation of reliability and efficiency of the system: piloted space vehicle – mission control center-crew. He defended the thesis at the Yu. Gagarin CTC.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
from April 1, 1974 – a shift engineer for aviation and radio electrical equipment of the Burundaisk united aviation detachment of the civil aviation air communication;
from January 7, 1975 – an exempt secretary of the Comsomol committee of the Burundaisk company in Alma-Ata;
from January 7, 1976 – an instructor, and from April 3, 1978 – a senior instructor of the political educational department of the Kazakh administration for the civil aviation;
from January 7, 1987 – a second pilot, from July 6, 1989 – a An-2 commander of the Burundaisk united air detachmnet;
1977 - 1984 – studied at the Alma-Ata air spots club;
June 1978 – piloted Yak-18A on his own for the first time. He also acquired experience in Yak-52 piloting;
from June 6, 1990 – a Tu-134 pilot-probationer, from August 25, 1990 – a Tu-134 second pilot of the flight detachment of the Alma-Ata united air detachment.
DATE OF JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS (GROUP NUMBER, DATE):
March 6, 1991 – by the order of the Soviet Defence Minister was drafted for the military service and enrolled as a candidate for cosmonaut-researcher of the fourth cosmonaut group (was additionally enrolled after group 11);
September 13, 1991 - by the State Interdepartmental Board decision was qualified cosmonaut-tester.
RATING:
A civil aviation third-class pilot (total flight time more than 1800 hours);
A first-class cosmonaut.
BACK-UP ACTIVITY:
May 20 - July 10, 1991 – a cosmonaut-tester of the backup crew on the Kazakh program of the visiting expedition to the Mir orbital station along with V. Tsibliyev and A. Lavyeikin;
July 17 - September 13, 1991 – a cosmonaut-tester of the second crew on the Primary Expedition-10/AustroMir-91 program along with A. Victorenko and K. Lotaller (Austria);
October 2, 1991 – a backup for T. Aubakirov, the cosmonaut-researcher 1 of the Soyuz TM-13;
June 1 to December 17, 1993 – a flight engineer of the second crew on the Primary Expedition-23 along with N. Budarin, H. Shlegel (from April 1996) and M. Foale (from August 1996);
February 10, 1997 – a backup for V. Tsibliyev, the commander of the Soyuz TM-25;
From June 12, 2000 – a commander of the second crew on the Primary Expedition-29 to the Mir orbital station along with U. Baturin.
SPACE FLIGHTS PERFORMED:
The first mission - July 1 to November 4, 1994 – a flight engineer of the Primary Expedition-16 crew aboard the Soyuz TM-19 and Mir orbital station along with U. Malenchenko and B. Polyakov. Had two EVA operations lasted for 11 hours 07 min. Flight duration: 125 days 22 hours 53 min. 36 sec. Call sign: Agat-1;
The second mission – January 29 to August 25, 1998 – a commander of the Soyuz TM-27 and Mir on the Primary Expedition-25 (NASA-7/Pegas) program along with N. Budarin and L. Eyharts (France, up to February 19, 1998), also along with A. Thomas (USA, up to June 8, 1998). Flew along with the Primary Expedition-24 crew - A. Solovyov and P. Vinogradov (till February 19,1998) and also along with the STS-91 crew: C. Precourt, D Gorie, F. Chang-Diaz, W. Lawrence, J. Kavandi and V. Ryumin (4-8 June 1998). Had five EVA operations lasted for 30 hours 08 min. Flight duration: 207 days12 hours 51 min. 02 sec. Call sign: Kristal-1;
The third mission - April 28 - May 6, 2001 – a commander of the Soyuz TM-32 crew under The ISS-T1 2S program along with U. Baturin and D. Tito (USA). Landed aboard the Soyuz TM-31. Flight duration: 07 days 22 hours 05 min. 09 sec. Call sign: Kristall-1;
AWARDS:
Medal “Gold Star” of the Russian Hero (November 24, 1994),
Order Friendship of Peoples (October 10, 1991),
Order of Merits before Native Land of the third grade (December 25, 1998),
Honor diploma of the Kazakh Supreme Council (November 6, 1984) for the great job on the military-patriotic training of the population of the republic, great social work and in honor of the 50-th Anniversary of Alma-Ata air club of the army support youth society,
Golden Medal “Kazakh People’s Hero” (1995),
Otan Order (Kazakhstan, November 11, 1998),
Order of the Austrian Republic,
Astana Medal (Kazakhstan, May 8, 1999),
NASA Medal “Space Mission”, (1998),
Certificates and honor diplomas of the Kazakh army support youth society,
Honor Sign “Active work for the army support youth society” (1984).
CURRENT STATUS: December 17, 1995 – an Air Force colonel (ahead of time),
from April 3, 1999 – a first class cosmonaut.

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