Biographies of USSR / Russian Cosmonauts
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Personal data
| Birthdate: | 03.01.1959 |
| Birthplace: | Batumi / Georgian SSR |
| Marital status: | married |
| Children: | two |
| Selection date: | 28.07.1997 |
| Selection group: | RKKE-14 |
| Position: | Test Cosmonaut (TC) |
| Status: | active |
Spaceflights
| No. | Mission | Position | Time | Duration |
| 1 | STS-112 | MSP | 07.10. - 18.10.2002 | 10d 19h 58m |
| 2 | Soyuz TMA-10 / ISS-15 | Flight Engineer | 07.04. - 21.10.2007 | 196d 17h 05m |
| 3 | Soyuz TMA-19 / ISS-24 / ISS-25 | Commander | 15.06. - 26.11.2010 | 163d 07h 11m |
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| Total | 370d 20h 14m | |||
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Double assignments
| No. | Mission | Position |
| 1 | Soyuz TMA-8 | Commander |
Additional information
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Engineer; workes since 1993 at
RKKE;
graduated from the Moscow Service State University with a
Ph.D. in
economics, 2001; was selected by
GMVK
as cosmonaut on 28.07.1997 (RKKE-13);
OKP
(cosmonaut basic training) until 11/1999; hobbies: collecting stamps and space
logos, sports, history of cosmonautics, and promotion of space, reading
history, science fiction and the classics. |
Personal patches
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