Dezhurov, Vladimir Nikolaevich

He was born in the family of servicemen Nikolai Serafimovich and Anna Vasilyevna Dezhurovs second after his sister Galina. In 1983 he graduated from the Kharkov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots named after S. I. Gritsevets (reorganized in 2001) with the rank of lieutenant with a diploma “Military pilot-engineer”. After that, he served 4 years in the Air Force units of the Odessa Military District. In October 1987 , an order was issued by the Air Force Commander-in-Chief to enroll Vladimir Dezhurov in the cosmonaut cosmonaut squad of the Air Force and from December 1987 to June 1989 Vladimir Nikolaevich, along with other candidates for test cosmonauts of the 8th set of the cosmonaut cosmonaut corps, underwent a general space training course. Until April 1994, Dezhurov was preparing for the flight on the spacecraft Soyuz TM and OK Mir as part of a group, and also studied in absentia at the Air Force Academy. Yu.A. Gagarina (Monino settlement, Moscow region).

On March 14, 1995 , the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft launched by the international Russian-American crew, consisting of V. Dezhurov (commander), G. Strekalov, and the American astronaut N. Tagard, launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome . Within the framework of the Russian-American Soyuz-Shuttle program, he worked for 79 days at the Mir orbital station, for which he was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation in 1995.

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Vladimir Dezhurov is married to Elena Valentinovna, has two daughters, Anna, born in 1983 and Svetlana 1987 p.

• Lieutenant (10/15/1983).
• Senior Lieutenant (11/5/1985).
• Captain (01/13/1988).
• Major (01/29/1991).
• Lieutenant Colonel (01/29/1994).
• Colonel (02.10.1998).

• Hero of the Russian Federation ( September 7, 1995 ) - for his active participation in the preparation and successful implementation of a long Russian-American space flight at the Mir orbital research complex, showing courage and heroism ^[3]
• Honorary Citizen of the Republic of Mordovia ( January 10, 1997 ) - for outstanding services to the Republic and the Fatherland ^[4]
• Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, IV degree ( April 12, 2003 ) - for the courage and high professionalism shown during the space flight at the International Space Station ^[5]
• Medal "For Merits in Space Exploration" ( April 12, 2011 ) - for great merits in the field of research, development and use of outer space, many years of conscientious work, active social activity ^[6]
• Five anniversary medals
• Space Flight Medal ( NASA Space Flight Medal)
• Outstanding Public Service Medal (NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, 2003)

• 3rd main expedition to the ISS

• I. A. Marinin, S. Kh. Shamsutdinov, A. V. Glushko (compilers). Soviet and Russian astronauts. 1960-2000 / Edited by Yu. M. Baturin . - M .: LLC Information and Publishing House "Cosmonautics News", 2001. - ISBN 5-93345-003-0 .

• Dezhurov, Vladimir Nikolaevich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• NASA Information on Vladimir Dezhurov
• Cosmic world
• Cosmonaut Vladimir Dezhurov . Video Encyclopedia "Cosmonauts". Roscosmos TV Studio