Vladimir Nikolayevich Deschurow

Vladimir Dezhurov
Country:	Russia
Organization:	Roscosmos
selected on	March 26, 1987
Calls:	2 space flights
Start of the first space flight:	March 14, 1995
Landing of the last space flight:	December 17, 2001
Time in space:	244d 5h 28min
EVA inserts:	9
EVA total duration:	37h 46min
retired on	July 2004
Space flights
Soyuz TM-21 / STS-71 (1995) Me EO-18 STS-105 / STS-108 (2001) ISS expedition 3

Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Deschurow ( Russian Влади́мир Никола́евич Дежу́ров ; born July 30, 1962 in Jawas , Subowa Polyana Raion , Mordovia , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian cosmonaut .

Deschurow graduated in 1983 from the Higher Military Aviation School "Sergei Grizewez" in Kharkiv with a degree as an aviation engineer. He then served four years as a pilot in the Soviet Air Force in Odessa Oblast .

In 1987 he was selected for the cosmonaut squad. From December 1987 to June 1989 he received his basic training.

From March 1994 he was preparing for the flight to the Mir space station . Deshurov was selected as the commander of the eighteenth regular crew Mir EO-18. He stayed 115 days in space between the start with Soyuz TM-21 on March 14, 1995 and the landing with the space shuttle Atlantis on July 7, 1995.

From August 12 to December 15, 2001 he was a member of the third long-term crew of the International Space Station (ISS); Including the outward flight with the Space Shuttle Discovery and return flight with the Space Shuttle Endeavor , he was in space for 128 days.

Deschurow is married and has two daughters.

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Deschurow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Short biography of Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Deschurow at spacefacts.de
• Biography of Vladimir Nikolayevich Deschurow in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)