Yuri Georgievich Shargin
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| Country: | Russia |
| selected on | February 9, 1996 |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | October 14, 2004 |
| Landing: | October 24, 2004 |
| Time in space: | 9d 21h 30min |
| retired on | August 30, 2008 |
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Yuri Shargin Georgijewitsch ( Russian Юрий Георгиевич Шаргин ., Scientific transliteration Jurij Georgievic Sargın * 20th March 1960 in Engels , Oblast Saratov , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian cosmonaut .
Shargin graduated from the Military Aerospace Engineering Academy in Leningrad . He is a lieutenant colonel in the Russian space forces .
Shargin was selected as a cosmonaut on February 9, 1996. In 2004 he was selected to fly to the International Space Station as a flight engineer on board the Soyuz TMA-5 . He was the first Russian cosmonaut with a (secret) military mission on the ISS.
He is divorced and has two children.
See also
- List of spacemen
- List of manned space flights
- List of manned missions to the International Space Station
- List of Soyuz missions
- Russian space travel
Web links
Commons : Juri Shargin - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Short biography of Juri Georgijewitsch Schargin at spacefacts.de
- Biography of Yuri Georgievich Shargin in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- Biography of Yuri Georgievich Shargin at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Russian)
- WDR: Officer of the Russian Space Forces on board the ISS ( Memento from April 21, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Shargin, Yuri Georgievich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shargin, Yuri; Шаргин, Юрий Георгиевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian cosmonaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Engels , Oblast Saratov , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union |