Age: 43 years old

Permanent residence: Russia, Moscow region, Star city.

Profession: engineer.

Education:

in 1988 graduated from Kharkov higher military aviation college, faculty – aviation equipment. In 2003 graduated 1 rom Military –air academy named after Y. A. Gagarin.

From 1997 to 2000 studied at post-graduate courses at SSC RF – Institute for Bio-Medical Problems of RAS.

From 1988 served in military positions in military units in Germany and in Far East. From 2003 – the leading engineer-investigator of MCC named after Y. A. Gagarin in the department of cosmonauts’ and astronauts’ training for survival during off-nominal launches landings. Specialist on interaction with the service of search and rescue; on investigations and tests in conditions of weightlessness on flying laboratories; on systems of landing and emergency rescue; scientific support; creation and test of the systems of landing; means of searching, rescue and evacuation.

Sphere of scientific interests: development of methodologies of survival and interaction in off-nominal situations.

Interests/hobbies: cars, computer engineering.

Age: 37 years old

Permanent residence: Russia, Moscow.

In 1996 graduated from Russian Military-medical academy named after S. M. Kirov (Saint-Petersburg), faculty of preparation of physicians of foreign armies. In 1997 finished internship on the specialty surgery. Candidate of medical sciences, in 2009 defended thesis on the theme: “Immediate and postponed results of prosthesis of aortal valve with frame xenopericardial prosthesis of “BioLAB” series”.

From 1990 to 1994 – studying on the treatment faculty of Tadzhikistan medical university. In 1994 he was transferred to Military-medical academy named after S. M Kirov. From 1998 he made operations in the Central military hospital in Dushanbe city. He worked in border regions of Tadzhikistan with Afganistan, he has experience of work with bullet and knife wounds. Since 2001 he worked in the department of oral surgery. From 2004 till 2006 he had residency training on cardio-vascular surgery in Scientific research center of cardio-vascular surgery named after Bakulev (Moscow). In 2006 he began post-graduate courses, finished them successfully and defended thesis in 2009. He worked in SRCCVS named after Bakulev and participated in operations on heart as the first assistant.

Sphere of scientific interests: physiology and pathophysiology of blood circulation, medical support and prophylaxis of diseases in conditions of long-term isolation.

Interests/hobbies: Cinema, theater, sports.

Age: 37 years old

Permanent residence: Russia, Moscow region, Star city.

Profession: Engineer-electromechanic.

In 1994 graduated from Kaliningrad higher-naval college.

Lieutenant-colonel of reserve. During the period from 1994 to 2009 occupied positions from the junior researcher to the head of the department – investigator (diving specialist). From 1997 he has been working in MCC named after Y. A. Gagarin. Characteristics of the performed work:

• organization and conduction of proper exploitation, planned-prophylactic repair works, off-schedule repair works of the engineering technical systems of hydrolaboratory of MCC named after Y. A. Gagarin;
• organization, preparation and conduction of tests of technical systems and equipment that were put in exploitation and modernized ones;
• conduction of tests of divers’ equipment;
• preparation, conclusion and support of agreements with external and related organizations on service, modernization of technical systems and equipment;
• organization and conduction of initial divers’ training;
• participation in scientific-research works;
• participation as an ensuring diver in tests of space equipment and trainings of cosmonauts and astronauts of the crews of ISS1-ISS20 in conditions of simulated weightlessness in hydro-environment.

In the process of tests of space equipment, training and teaching of cosmonauts and astronauts in hydro-environment, he worked during 1700 hours under water (diving qualification – senior instructor-diver).

Sphere of scientific interests: Psychology of behavior of small groups in confined pressurized environment. Maintenance of the required working capacity of the crew and organization of leisure time during increase of monotony of staying in isolation

Interests/hobbies: traveling by car, diving, photo.

Age: 38 years old

Permanent residence: Russia, Moscow region, Star city.

In 1996 graduated from Higher Military-naval engineering of Lenin’s order college named after F. E. Dzerhzhinskiy on specialty search-rescue and diving works, building of rescue and ship-raising means and ships (Saint-Petersburg).

From 1996 he served as the teacher-commander of platoon on the Black sea fleet (Sevastopol). During the time of service he learnt to work with all the types of diving equipment. He performed educational diving deep-water descending from the board of rescue ship “Epron”, he trained more than 250 junior specialists of Military-naval fleet on the qualification “deep water diver”. In 2004 he was transferred to MCC named after Y. A. Gagarin on the position of the leading engineer-investigator (senior diving specialist). He participated in training of ISS crews on extra-vehicular activity in conditions of simulated weightlessness in hydro-environment. He was the head of diving training of candidates for cosmonauts and members of the testing brigade.

Sphere of scientific interests: Improvement of life support systems, development of recommendations on activities of the crew in the struggle of functioning of the space station, development of technical means, facilitating for the cosmonauts exploration of the planet under investigation.

Interests/hobbies: Tourism, photo, diving.

Age: 32 years old

Permanent residence: Russia, Moscow.

In 2005 with honour graduated from Military-medical Academy named after S. K. Kirov, faculty of training of physicians for Military-Air Forces and Space forces. In 2006 finished internship on specialty “physician of general practice”.

From 2006 he was a researcher of scientific-research testing department of scientific-research testing center of aviation, space medicine and military ergonomics (SRTC ASM and ME). He is a specialist on medical support of tests of aviation sets and items of military technics, medical devices, apparatus and facilities. He dealt with the issues of increase of tolerance of human organism to unfavorable factors of environment and conditions of activity. Since 2009 he has been the head of laboratory of psycho-physiological investigations.

He investigated the problem of information interaction human-technical means.

Sphere of scientific interests: Biochemistry, pharmacology, physiology.

Interests/hobbies: Sports, fishing.