CLASSIFICATION: 92/392.
NUMBER OF MISSIONS: 2.
SPACE FLIGHT HOURS: 83 days 16 hours 35min.
EVA OPERATIONS: 1.
TOTAL EVA TIME: 5 hours 03 min.
PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: April 21, 1962, Schekino, Tula region, RSFSR (Russia)
NATIONALITY: Russian
EDUCATION:
1979 - finished Schekino secondary school No.13;
1983 - graduated from the Borisoglebsk Air Force pilots school, specialization – command tactical fighter-bomber aviation and got the pilot-engineer diploma;
February 1, 1992 to April 7, 1994 - had the correspondence training at the International center for the training systems and acquired a specialty of the aerospace ecological materials conjugate processing. He was given a qualification of engineer-ecologist and received the international certificate of the master for the ecological management.
OCCUPATION BEFORE JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS:
1983 - at the command of the Air Force Commander-in-chief of the Moscow Military Command;
from December 24, 1983 – a pilot, from October 29, 1986 – a senior pilot of Guards fighters aviation regiment 32 of fighters aviation division 9 for the Moscow Military Command;
from April 17, 1987 – a commander of the aviation squad of the same regiment,
from December 19, 1989 – a commander of the aviation squad of aviation brigade 274 of fighters aviation division 9 for the Air Force of the Moscow Military Command.
DATE OF JOINING COSMONAUT CORPS (GROUP NUMBER, DATE):
May 11, 1990 - by the State Interdepartmental Board decision recommended for the enrollment in the cosmonauts corps of the Air Force Cosmonaut training center (group 11).
August 8, 1990 - by The Soviet Ministry of Defence order assigned for a position of cosmonaut-tester candidate of the fourth group of the Yu. Gagarin Cosmonaut training center;
From April 22, 1992 – a cosmonaut-tester of the second cosmonaut group.
RATING:
May 31,1988 – a first-class military pilot (total flying time more than 1150 hours);
February 11, 1994 – an instructor of the Air Force airborne regiment (more than 120 parachute jumps);
2000-the Winner of the Governmental Prize.
BACK-UP ACTIVITY:
September 1997 - July 1998 – a commander of the Primary Expedition-26 backup crew to the Mir space station along with A. Kaleri and beginning from May 1998 – together with A. Kaleri and O. Kotov;
August 13, 1998 – a backup for G. Padalka, the commander of the Soyuz TM-28;
From 2001 – a backup for V. Afanasyev, the Soyuz TM-33 commander of the ISS second visiting expedition along with N. Kuzhelnaya
SPACE FLIGHTS PERFORMED:
The first flight from April 4 through June 16, 2000 – the commander of the Soyuz TM-30 and the Mir space station on the Primary Expedition-28 program along with A. Kaleri. Performed one EVA lasted for 5 hours 03 min. Flight duration: 72 days 19 hours 42 min.16 sec.. Call sign: Yenisey-1.
The second mission - from October 30 to November 10, 2002 – a commander of the ISS fourth visiting crew onboard the Soyuz TMA-1 along with Frank De Vinne (flight-engineer 1, ESA, Belgium) and Yu. Lonchackov (flight-engineer 2)
Flight duration:10 days 20 hours 53 min.
AWARDS:
Medal “Gold Star” of The Russian Hero (November 9, 2000)
CURRENT STATUS: 2000 – an Air Force colonel, cosmonaut-tester of the cosmonaut corps second group.

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