Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko (Russian: Гидзенко, Юрий Павлович; born March 26, 1962) is a Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut. He is a Colonel of the Russian Air Force, and test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He is married to Olga Vladimirovna Shapovalova, born in 1961. They have two sons, Sergei and Alexei.
Gidzenko graduated from the Higher Military Pilot School in Kharkov (Ukraine) in 1983, and from the Moscow State University of ...
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Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko (Russian: Гидзенко, Юрий Павлович; born March 26, 1962) is a Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut. He is a Colonel of the Russian Air Force, and test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He is married to Olga Vladimirovna Shapovalova, born in 1961. They have two sons, Sergei and Alexei.
Gidzenko graduated from the Higher Military Pilot School in Kharkov (Ukraine) in 1983, and from the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK) in 1994.
Upon graduation from pilot school in 1983, Gidzenko served in the Air Force as a pilot and a senior pilot.
From December 1987 to June 1989, he attended basic space training as a test cosmonaut candidate. Since September 1989 he attended advanced training as a test cosmonaut candidate.
Gidzenko is an instructor of general parachute training. He has logged a total of 145 parachute jumps.
From March to October 1994 he trained for a space flight as a back-up crew commander (17th Primary Expedition/Euro...
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