Yuri Pavlovich Gidsenko
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| Country: |
 Russia
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| Organization: |
 Roscosmos
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| selected on | March 26, 1987 |
| Calls: | 3 space flights |
| Start of the first space flight: |
September 3, 1995 |
| Landing of the last space flight: |
May 5, 2002 |
| Time in space: | 329d 22h 44min |
| EVA inserts: | 2 |
| EVA total duration: | 3h 43min |
| retired on | May 2002 |
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Juri Pawlowitsch Gidsenko ( Russian Юрий Павлович Гидзенко , scientific transliteration Jurij Pavlovič Gidzenko ; born March 26, 1962 in Jelanez , Mykolaiv Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a former colonel in the Russian Air Force and Russian spaceman . He is married and has two sons.
Gidsenko attended the Higher Military Aviation School "Sergei Grizewez" in Kharkov ( Ukraine ), which he graduated in 1983. For the next four years he served in the Soviet Air Force as a pilot in the Odessa region .
In March 1987, Gidsenko was selected as a cosmonaut candidate and began basic training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, which he successfully completed in the summer of 1989. A further training course to become a test cosmonaut followed. From Lomonossow University he received a diploma in geodesy and cartography in 1994 .
Awards
See also
Web links
- Short biography of Yuri Pawlowitsch Gidsenko at spacefacts.de
- Biography of Yuri Pavlovich Gidsenko in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- Гидзенко Юрий Павлович , warheroes.ru (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Gidsenko, Yuri Pavlovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Гидзенко, Юрий Павлович (Russian); Gidsenko, Yuri; Gidzenko, Jurij Pavlovič (scientific transliteration) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet cosmonaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jelanets , Mykolaiv Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , USSR |