Damir Kassimowitsch Yusupov

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Damir Kassimowitsch Jussupow ( Russian Дами́р Каси́мович Юсу́пов ; born September 13, 1977 in Igarka , Krasnoyarsk Region , RSFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Russian civil aviation pilot . He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2019 . He was the commander of a Airbus A321 on the flight 178 of the Ural Airlines , in the vicinity of the August 15, 2019 Airport Moscow Zhukovsky successful emergency landing.

biography

Damir Yusupov is his ethnicity forth Tatar . In 1993 the family moved to Syzran , where his father lived. In 1996 he graduated from the Polytechnic and then served in the armored forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. When entering the flight school, Damir Yusupov was not accepted - he did not pass the medical commission.

In 2005 he graduated from the correspondence department of the Faculty of Law, specializing in "Law" at the State University of Chuvashia , named after IN Ulyanov, who worked for several years in the city administration of Syzran.

In 2013 he graduated from the Buguruslan Civil Aviation School with very good results. He graduated with honors from PF Eromasov Buguruslan Civil Aviation School (branch of St. Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation). He has been working for Ural Airlines since 2013. In 2018 he graduated from the Ulyanovsk Institute of Civil Aviation with a focus on aviation by correspondence . At the time of the Airbus A321 incident, he worked as an aircraft commander for a year.

With the decree of the President of the Russian Federation of August 16, 2019, Damir Yusupov (and co-pilot Georgiy Murzin) was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation for his courage and heroism in performing official business under extreme conditions . The gold star was presented in the Kremlin on November 21, 2019 by Russian President Vladimir Putin .

family

Damir Yusupov is married and has two sons.

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