CLASSIFICATION: 89/381.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 2.
SPACE FLIGHT HOURS: 386 days 13 hours 47 min. 29 sec.
EVA OPERATIONS: 6 including 1 in the depressurized Spectr module.
TOTAL EVA TIME: 22 hours 10 min.
PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: June 21,1958. Krasnodar, RSFSR (Russia).
NATIONALITY: Russian.
EDUCATION:
1975 - graduated from Krasnodar secondary school No.57;
October 29, 1979 – graduated from the Yeisk Komarov military aviation school for pilots, specialization - command tactical fighter-bomber aviation;
February 1, 1992 to April 7, 1994 – studied at the international center for the training systems at the aerospace ecology department, specialization – aerospace ecological materials conjugate processing. He was given a qualification of engineer-ecologist and received the diploma of the master for the ecological monitoring.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
From December 19, 1979 – pilot of Fighter-Bombers Aviation Regiment 559 of Fighter-Bombers Aviation Division 105 of Guards Fighters Aviation Corps 61 of Aviation Army 16, Eastern Germany;
July 10, 1980 – transferred to Guards Fighter-Bombers Aviation Regiment 116 of the same division to the same position;
from April 10, 1982 – senior pilot of the same regiment;
from August 27, 1984 – senior pilot of the Air Force of the Far East Military Command.
DATE OF JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS (GROUP NUMBER, DATE):
January 25, 1989 - by the State Interdepartmental Board decision recommended for the enrollment in the cosmonauts corps of the Air Force Cosmonaut training center (group 10);
since April 22, 1989 – a candidate for cosmonaut-tester of the sixth group;
April 6, 1990 – transferred to the fourth group to the same position;
From 6 April 1991- a cosmonaut–researcher of the first group.
RATING: - a first-class military pilot (total flying hours more than 2000 hours, piloted eight types of the air planes);
July 8, 1999 – a second-class cosmonaut.
BACK-UP ACTIVITY:
September 1996 to July 1997 – a commander of the backup crew for the Primary Expedition-24 along with S. Avdeyev and Andre-Deshays-Claudie (France);
August 5, 1997 – a backup for A. Solovyov, the Soyuz -26 commander;
from November 2000 – a commander of the ISS-4 backup crew along with E. Fincke and S. Robinson.
SPACE FLIGHTS PERFORMED:
The first flight August 13, 1998 – February 28, 1999 – a commander of the Primary Expedition-26 to the Mir space station and the Soyuz TM-28 along with S. Avdeyev and Yu. Baturin. Landed along with I. Bella (Slovakia). During the mission had one EVA operation and another EVA performed in the depressurized Spectr module with a total duration of 6 hours 26 minutes. Flight duration: 198 days 16 hours 31 min. 20 sec. Call sign: Altair-1.
The second flight - April 19 – October 24, 2004 – a commander of the ISS and commander of the Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft along with Michael Fink. Performed four EVAs of total duration – 15 hours 44 minutes. Flight duration: 187 days 12 hours 16 min. 09 sec.
AWARDS:
Medal “Gold Star” of Hero of the Russian Federation (April 5, 1999),
Three Commemorative medals,
Medal “ Merits in Space” (The International Fund for Space Support, March 19,1999),
The Governmental Prize winner of 2000.
CURRENT STATUS: July 15, 1999 – colonel, instructor, cosmonaut-researcher.

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