Alexander Mikhailovich Samokutyaev(born March 13, 1970, Penza) - pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation, member of the cosmonaut corps of the Cosmonaut Center. He made two space flights as commander of the Soyuz TMA-21 (2011) and Soyuz TMA-14M (2014-2015) spacecraft. Hero of the Russian Federation (2012).

Education

Born on March 13, 1970 and grew up in Penza. While still at school, he was involved in parachuting. Graduated from secondary school No. 56 in Penza. In 1987-1988 he studied at the Penza Polytechnic Institute, but left this university and entered the Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots. In 1992, after graduating from it, he received the qualification of “pilot engineer”.

Military service

In 1992-1998. Served as an instructor in the Chernigov VVAUL, then at a helicopter school in Ukraine and in the Far Eastern Military District (FEMD), where he rose to the rank of squadron commander as part of the 1st Air Army.

During his service, he mastered the Vilga-35A, L-13 Blanik, L-39, Su-24M aircraft.

In 1998-2000 he studied at the Air Force Academy. Yu. A. Gagarin, after which he was appointed to the organizational and planning department of the 2nd Directorate of the Cosmonaut Training Center as the head of the department.

Space training

In January 2003, Alexander Samokutyaev was admitted to special training by the Main Medical Commission. On May 29, 2003, he enlisted in the cosmonaut corps of the Yu. A. Gagarin Russian State Scientific Research Institute of Cosmonauts and in June of the same year began general space training. Two years later, in July 2005, he was awarded the qualification of “test cosmonaut”. From August 2005 to November 2008, he underwent training as part of a specialization and improvement group.

On April 1, 2009, he was appointed commander of the backup crew of the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft and flight engineer of the main expedition of ISS-23/24.

On October 19, 2015, by order of the head of the Cosmonaut Training Center, he was appointed to the position of deputy commander of the Cosmonaut Detachment of the Cosmonaut Training Center, retaining the position of instructor-test cosmonaut. At the same time, he was relieved of his post as commander of a group of cosmonaut candidates.

First flight

On April 5, 2011, the launch of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft took place, the commander of which was Alexander Samokutyaev. On April 7, 2011, after the docking of Soyuz TMA-21 with the ISS, he began to serve as a flight engineer for the main expedition of ISS-27/28. On September 16, 2011, Samokutyaev and two other cosmonauts landed in Kazakhstan after descending from the ISS on the Soyuz spacecraft. During the flight, he performed a spacewalk lasting 6 hours and 23 minutes. The flight duration was 164 days.

Second flight

On September 26, 2014, Alexander Samokutyaev, Elena Serova and Barry Wilmore launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. During the six-month expedition, the crew performed more than 50 scientific experiments in orbit and participated in supporting work with three Russian and one European cargo transport ships. In addition, Alexander Samokutyaev performed a spacewalk under the Russian program lasting 3 hours and 41 minutes. On March 12, 2015, the crew of the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft, headed by Alexander Samokutyaev, returned safely from the expedition. The flight duration was 167 days 5 hours 42 minutes. The day after landing, March 13, 2015, Alexander turned 45 years old.

Awards

Hero of the Russian Federation and Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation (June 25, 2012) - for courage and heroism shown during space flight on the International Space Station.
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (February 15, 2016) - for courage and high professionalism shown during a long-term space flight.
Medals of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: “For military valor” II degree, “For distinction in military service” I, II, III degrees, “For service in the Air Force”.
Honorary citizen of the city of Penza (April 26, 2013).

Family

Brother Andrey Mikhailovich Samokutyaev
Wife Oksana Nikolaevna Samokutyaeva (Zosimova)
- Daughter Anastasia (1995).

Alexander Samokutyaev’s parents live in Penza.

Hobbies

Hobbies include motoring, travel, and ice hockey.

On March 30, 2007, Alexander Samokutyaev unsuccessfully (his team of experts lost) played one game in the elite television club “What? Where? When?" for the astronaut team.

Samokutyaev Alexander Mikhailovich

test cosmonaut 3rd class -

head of the group of astronaut candidates

Roscosmos cosmonaut corps (Russia),

reserve colonel of the Russian Armed Forces,

518th cosmonaut of the world,

109th cosmonaut of the Russian Federation.

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH

MARITAL STATUS

Married. Wife - Samokutyaeva (Zosimova) Oksana Nikolaevna. Raises a daughter. Mother, Maria Aleksandrovna Samokutyaeva, lives in Penza.

EDUCATION

In 1987 he graduated from high school in Penza. In 1988 he entered the Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots, from which he graduated in 1992 with a degree in Pilot Engineer. In 1998 he entered the Yu.A. Air Force Academy. Gagarin and graduated from it in 2000.

EXPERIENCE

After graduating from college, he served in Air Force units as a pilot, senior pilot, and deputy commander of an aviation squadron. Military pilot 3rd class. Mastered the Vilga-35A, L-13 Blahnik, L-39, Su-24M aircraft. Has a total flight time of 680 hours. Performed 250 parachute jumps. He is qualified as a diver officer. After graduating from the academy in 2000, he was appointed to the position of head of the 2nd department at the Yu.A. Gagarin.

PREPARATION FOR SPACE FLIGHTS

In May 2003, he was enrolled as a candidate test cosmonaut in the cosmonaut corps of the Yu.A. Gagarin.

In June 2003, he began general space training, which he completed on June 27, 2005, having passed the state exam with an “excellent” grade.

In July 2005, at a meeting of the Interdepartmental Qualification Commission (IQC), he was awarded the qualification “test cosmonaut”.

From August 2005 to November 2008, he underwent training as part of a specialization and improvement group.

From December 2008 to April 2010, he underwent training as part of the backup crew of ISS-23/24 as an ISS flight engineer and commander of the Soyuz TMA TPK.

From April 2010 to April 2011, he prepared for a space flight as part of the main crew of ISS-27/28 as the commander of the Soyuz TMA TPK and the ISS flight engineer.

From October 2012 to March 2014, he underwent training as part of the backup crew of ISS-39/40 as the commander of the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft and the ISS flight engineer.

Since March 2014, he has been preparing for a space flight as part of the main crew of ISS-41/42 as the commander of the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft and the ISS flight engineer.

SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE

The Soyuz TMA-21 manned spacecraft landed on the territory of Kazakhstan on Friday, September 16, 2011. Having successfully undocked from the International Space Station, the 28th crew of three returned to Earth. The cosmonauts of the next expedition to the ISS - Alexander Samokutyaev, Andrei Borisenko and Ronald Garan - feel satisfactory.

The Penza region follows with special attention the chronicles of central television and electronic media, since among the returning cosmonauts there is a Penza resident - Alexander Samokutyaev.

Governor Vasily Bochkarev expressed greetings to him. “I cordially congratulate you on your safe return to your native Earth! Residents of the Penza region are rightfully proud of their brave fellow countryman and his colleagues, who have made a worthy contribution to the conquest of outer space. I sincerely wish you good health, prosperity, happiness, and further success in all your affairs and endeavors!” - a telegram with this content from the head of the region has already been sent to Alexander Samokutyaev.

According to Vedomosti, the next expedition will launch from the ISS on November 14, 2011. According to the head of Roscosmos Vladimir Popovkin, the last flight of this year is scheduled for December 21. The crew currently working on the ISS - Sergei Volkov, Michael Fossum and Satoshi Furukawa - will return to Earth on November 22, 2011.

Photo - from the website of Channel One.

The Penza region brand has been tested in orbit

For 164 calendar days, the whole world closely followed the work of the crew of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft on board the International Space Station.

Governor of the Penza region Vasily Bochkarev congratulated the commander of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft, Alexander Samokutyaev (a native of Penza), on his safe return to earth. The famous fellow countryman is eagerly awaited by a variety of people who feel their involvement in space.

Thanks to Alexander Samokutyaev, who chose the name of the State Lermontov Museum-Reserve “Tarkhany” as the call sign for the spacecraft, the Penza brand became widely known throughout the world. The idea to take such a call sign came to Alexander after reading a poem by Mikhail Lermontov, which contains the lines: “the earth sleeps in a blue radiance.” “Reading these lines, it seems that Lermontov saw the Earth from space,” the future astronaut shared in correspondence with museum staff.

For all his fame and wide popularity, Alexander Samokutyaev is a true example of a patriot of the Sur region. He does not forget about his small homeland for a minute. His boundless love is evidenced by the fact that Alexander kept the flag of the Penza region on board the ship, and while in orbit, he sent a video message and congratulations on Cosmonautics Day to the residents of the Penza region.

When Alexander arrives in Penza, he always visits secondary school No. 56, a photograph of which he took from space. His mother, Maria Aleksandrovna, works there as a head teacher and physics teacher, and he called school director Anna Shkerdina while in orbit at least once a week.

The grateful teaching staff prepared an excellent gift for the meeting with their famous student. The educational institution has prepared a room for the school museum. Teachers and students really hope that Alexander Samokutyaev will give them. a space suit that will become the central exhibit of the museum. the first Penza cosmonaut.

They are also waiting for the space conqueror at Penza school No. 10, where the future spaceship commander took his first steps towards knowledge. They even found the desk where he sat in the classroom on the third floor. Bread and salt are being prepared for Alexander Samokutyaev and his fellow countrymen on his mother’s side from the village of Uvarovo, Issinsky district, Penza region.

Sasha “fell ill” with space as a child, and today all Penza boys know who Alexander Samokutyaev is. He is a living example for them that childhood dreams come true if you achieve your goal. Alexander Samokutyaev received his first ticket to the sky at the Penza flying club, founded in 1923 as the aviation technical circle of Osoaviakhim. I came to the parachuting section as a schoolboy. Then he mastered a sports glider.

In 1927, in aviation sports and dissemination of aviation knowledge, the Penza organization took first place in the Osoaviakhim Central Committee. Since 1968, the Penza Aviation Sports Club began training instructors-pilots of light aircraft, glider pilots, paratroopers from among conscripts, athletes in aviation sports and aviation modeling. Among the famous students of the Penza Aero Club: stratonaut Ilya Usyskin, eight Heroes of the Soviet Union, dozens of pilots of the Great Patriotic War, including the famous Valentina Grizodubova, Alexander Senatorov and many others. By the way, in the 50s and 60s of the last century, connections between Penza aviators and colleagues from the Saratov flying club actively developed, to which the first cosmonaut of the planet, Yuri Gagarin, came for the first time on October 25, 1954.

Let us remind you that Penza is a unique source of personnel for the domestic aviation and astronautics. Associated with it are the names of the researcher of the stratosphere (the layer of the atmosphere to which the British assigned the term “pre-cosmos”) Pyotr Dolgov, as well as the pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union, who was part of the crew of the Soyuz-11 spacecraft - Viktor Patsaev, who died tragically in orbit June 29, 1971.

Penza industrialists and scientists also consider Cosmonautics Day their professional holiday. In 1960, by decree of the USSR government, the Penza Research Institute of Physical Measurements (NIIFI) was established, which was directly involved in the development and creation of rocket and space computing equipment: sensors, elements of the launch structure, radio-electronic elements, resistors, capacitors, telemetric information equipment, refills . All these developments were introduced into mass production in many Penza research institutes and industrial enterprises.

The illustrious team of the Federal Research and Production Center FSUE "Research Institute of Physical Measurements" from 1995 to 2009 was headed by its General Director and Chief Designer, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor,

Academician of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after. K.E. Tsiolkovsky, Russian

Engineering Academy, International Academy of Navigation and Traffic Control Evgeniy Mokrov.

Reference

September 16, at 04:38 Moscow time, the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft with commander Alexander Samokutyaev (Roscosmos), flight engineers Andrei Borisenko (Roscosmos) and Ronald Garan (NASA) on board

undocked from the MIM-2 Poisk module of the International Space Station.

At 07:59:39 Moscow time, the descent module of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft. made a soft landing in the estimated area 149 km from

city of Dzhezkazgan (Republic of Kazakhstan). Specialists from the search and rescue group of the Federal Air Transport Agency discovered the descent module at a point with coordinates close to the calculated ones. To support the operation, special units of the Federal Air Transport Agency were involved. The landing of the Soyuz TMA-21 descent module was ensured by three aircraft (An-26 and An-12), 14 Mi-8 helicopters and seven search and recovery vehicles.

Crew members (call sign “Tarkhany”) Andrei Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev (Roscosmos), Ronald Garan (NASA) have been working on the International Space Station since April 7, 2011. The orbital watch of the ISS-27/28 crew lasted 164 calendar days.

During two long expeditions, the crew received two Russian

cargo spacecraft "Progress", manned spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-02M", two

American reusable ship. One spacewalk was carried out by the Russian and American sides.

About fifty scientific experiments in various areas have been carried out on the Russian segment of the ISS: remote sensing of the Earth, geophysical, biotechnological and medical research, educational programs..

Russian crew members of the manned transport spacecraft Soyuz TMA-21 were taken to the complex for pre-launch training and post-flight rehabilitation of cosmonauts (astronauts). CPC named after Yu.A. Gagarin, where they undergo examination

Currently, the crew of the 29th continues to work on the ISS. long expedition consisting of commander Michael Fossum (NASA astronaut), flight engineers Sergei Volkov (Roscosmos astronaut) and Satoshi Furukawa

(JAXA astronaut), - report the press services of Roscosmos and the Cosmonaut Training Center named after. Yu.A. Gagarin.

Based on site materials http :// www . islamnews . ru / news -85751. html

http://www.penza.ru/

For reference.

Alexander Mikhailovich Samokutyaev —

- Russian cosmonaut, Hero of Russia.

During my studies, I was involved in the parachuting section. Graduated from secondary school No. 56 in Penza. He entered the Penza Polytechnic Institute, but a year later he interrupted his studies, deciding to enter the Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots, which he graduated from in 1992. In 1998-2000 he studied at the Air Force Academy named after Yu.A. Gagarin.

In 2003, he received a positive conclusion from the Main Medical Commission (admission to special training) and was enrolled in the cosmonaut corps to undergo general space training. In 2005, he passed the state exams at the Center for Testing and Training with an “excellent” grade, after which he was awarded the qualification “test cosmonaut”. Worked as part of a specialization and improvement group.

From December 2008 to April 2010, he underwent training as part of the backup crew of ISS-23/24 as an ISS flight engineer and commander of the Soyuz TMA manned transport spacecraft (TPV).

From April 2010 to April 2011, he prepared for a space flight as part of the main crew of ISS-27/28 as the commander of the Soyuz TMA TPK and the ISS flight engineer.

From April to September 2011, as part of the crew of the 27/28th long-term expedition to the International Space Station as commander of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft and ISS flight engineer. Performed a spacewalk lasting 6 hours 23 minutes. The flight duration was 164 days.

From October 2012 to March 2014, he underwent training as part of the backup crew of ISS-39/40 as the commander of the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft and the ISS flight engineer.

Since March 2014, he has been preparing for a space flight as part of the main crew of ISS-41/42 as the commander of the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft and the ISS flight engineer.

In April 2017, the interdepartmental commission of the state corporation Roscosmos - deputy commander of the cosmonaut corps.

The material was prepared based on information from PenzaNews news agency and open sources. Information is current as of April 25, 2017.

Alexander Samokutyaev, Russian cosmonaut, Hero of Russia, retired Air Force colonel. He made two space flights, spending a total of about a year in orbit, including 10 hours 03 minutes in outer space.

Current activities

Until April 2017, he served as commander of a group of cosmonaut candidates. deputy commander of the cosmonaut corps of the Cosmonaut Training Center, retaining the position of test cosmonaut instructor, relieved of his position for medical reasons.

He heads the Penza community in the capital of the Russian Federation, conducts public work, and meets with young people.

BIOGRAPHY

Born and raised in Penza, where he became interested in parachuting while still at school. He entered the Penza Polytechnic Institute, but changed his mind and continued his studies at the Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots, where he received the qualification “pilot engineer”.

He began his service as an instructor in flight schools. In the Far Eastern Military District (FMD), as part of the 1st Air Army, he rose to the rank of squadron commander.

After graduating from the Air Force Academy. Yu. A. Gagarin served at the Cosmonaut Training Center as head of the department.

In 2003, he joined the cosmonaut corps, where he underwent general space training.

He spent his first flight from April 5 to September 16, 2011 as commander of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft and flight engineer of ISS-27/28.

The second six-month flight took place in 2014-2015.

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES AND SPEECH TOPICS

Alexander Samokutyaev speaks to cadets of flight and other military schools, students, and schoolchildren. Met with cadets and officers of the A.F. Military Space Academy. Mozhaisky, the youth of Moscow and Penza. On Cosmonautics Day 2017, he held a meeting at the Russian State Library.

The topics of the speeches are related to the history of space exploration and the Russian cosmonaut corps. The speaker talks interestingly about the tasks being solved in space, the features of training for survival in extreme conditions.