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Hero of the Russian Federation Yuri Lonchakov. Biography. He let his colleagues down

LONCHAKOV Yury Valentinovich

Flight Engineer-1 ISS,
commander of TC "Soyuz TMA",
Air Force Colonel,
commander of the cosmonaut FSBI "NII TsPK named after Yu.A. Gagarin",
test cosmonaut of FGBU "NII TsPK"
named after Yu.A. Gagarin, Russia

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:
March 4, 1965 in the city of Balkhash, Dzhezkazgan region of the Kazakh SSR (Republic of Kazakhstan).
Father - Lonchakov Valentin Gavrilovich (1931-1999).
Mother - Lonchakova (Benderskaya) Galina Vasilievna, born in 1939, pensioner.

EDUCATION: in 1986 he graduated from the Orenburg Higher Military Aviation Pilot School named after I.S. Polbina; in 1998 - the N.E. Zhukovsky, majoring in "Testing of aircraft and their systems", qualified as a pilot-engineer-researcher.

Marital status: Married.
Wife - Lonchakova (Dolmatova) Tatyana Alekseevna, born in 1963, stewardess of Continental Airlines at Sheremetyevo-2.
Son - Kirill, born in 1990.

AWARDS AND HONORARY TITLES:
Hero of the Russian Federation, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation.
He was awarded the Gold Star medal of the Hero of the Russian Federation, Russian commemorative medals, the P. Nesterov medal, and the NASA medal For Space Flight (2001).
Laureate of the national award "To the Glory of the Fatherland" in the "Glory of Russia" nomination, established by the International Academy of Social Sciences and the International Academy of Patronage, was awarded the Order "For the Glory of the Fatherland" II degree.
Honored Worker of Aktobe region.

SPORT ACHIEVEMENTS: candidate master of sports in radiosport and judo, 2nd category in parachuting.

HOBBIES: books, skiing, scuba diving, mountain hiking, astronomy (building a telescope), guitar (playing, singing, composing songs), playing sports, photography, collecting samples of minerals and archaeological finds.

WORK EXPERIENCE:
From 1986 to 1995 he served in the naval aviation units of the Baltic Fleet, and later in the air defense units. Military pilot 1st class.
He mastered six types of aircraft and their modifications, including the Yak-52, L-29, L-39, Su-24, A-50, Tu-16, Tu-134, the total flight time is more than 1,500 hours, completed more than 530 parachute jumps.
In the cosmonaut corps since 1998.
From January 1998 to November 1999 he completed a general space training course at the Yu.A. Gagarin.
December 1, 1999 - by the decision of the Interdepartmental Qualification Commission, the qualification "test cosmonaut" was awarded.
From January to May 2000, he was trained as part of a group of cosmonauts under the ISS program.
From June to November 2000 he was the coordinator (representative) of the RGNII TsPK im. Yu.A. Gagarin at the Johnson Space Center in the United States.
On September 28, 2000, he was assigned to the crew of the Endeavor shuttle STS-100 and from October 2000 to April 2001 he underwent direct flight training at the Johnson Space Center.
First space flight performed from April 19 to May 1, 2001 as a flight specialist of the Endeavor spacecraft (STS-100) under the ISS deployment program. Flight duration - 11 days 21 hours 30 minutes.
On March 25, 2002, he was trained for space flight as a commander of the backup crew of the Soyuz TM and Soyuz TMA transport vehicles of the fourth visiting expedition (EP-4d) under the ISS program, together with flight engineer Alexander Lazutkin.
On October 1, 2002, by decision of the Interdepartmental Commission, he was appointed to the prime crew as a flight engineer-2 of the fourth visiting crew (VC-4) under the ISS program, while remaining in the position of backup crew commander.
Second space flight performed from October 30 to November 10, 2002 as flight engineer-2 under the program of the fourth Russian visiting crew to the ISS (VC-4). Start on SC "Soyuz TMA-1", landing on SC "Soyuz TM-34". Flight duration - 10 days 20 hours 53 minutes.
In July 2004, he took part in training for survival in extreme situations at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
At the end of July 2005, he was included in the mixed group of cosmonauts, which received the designation "MKS-15/16/17". On August 15, 2005, he began training as part of this group at the RGNII TsPK im. Yu.A. Gagarin.
In the period from June 2 to 10, 2006, in Sevastopol, he underwent training on how to work in the event of an emergency landing of the descent vehicle on the water as part of a conditional crew together with Oleg Artemyev and Oleg Skripochka.
On February 13, 2007, by decision of NASA, he was approved as the commander of the backup crew of Expedition 18 to the ISS (ISS-18d) and the Soyuz-TMA-13 ​​spacecraft.
In May 2008, after Salizhan Sharipov, ISS-18 prime crew flight engineer, was temporarily suspended from flight training, he was transferred from the ISS-18 backup crew to the prime crew.
Passed training for space flight as part of the ISS-18 prime crew as an ISS flight engineer and commander of the Soyuz TMA-13 ​​manned transport spacecraft.

September 2008
Based on the materials of the Research Institute of TsPK them. Yu.A. Gagarin,
reference book "Soviet and Russian cosmonauts. 1960-2000"
and the website www.astronaut.ru.

Biographies of cosmonauts of the USSR and the Russian Federation

SERIAL NUMBER: 94/402 VIDEO BIOGRAPHY OF THE COSMONAUT
NUMBER OF FLIGHTS: 3
PLAQUE: 200 days 18 o'clock 57 min. 00 sec.
SPACE WAYS: 2
TOTAL DURATION: 10 o'clock 25 min.
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:
EDUCATION:

1982. - graduated from 10 classes of secondary school No. 22 in the city of Aktyubinsk, Kazakh SSR;

1978-1982- studied at the DOSAAF radio school;

1979-1982- studied at the School of Young Pilots. IN AND. Patsaev at the Aktobe Higher Flight School of Civil Aviation;

1986- graduated from the Orenburg VVAUL them. I.S. Polbin with a gold medal and a diploma of an officer with a higher military special education, specialty "Command tactical naval missile-carrying aviation";

1998- Graduated from VVIA them. NOT. Zhukovsky, the first faculty "Aircraft and engines", specialty "Testing aircraft and their systems", pilot-engineer-researcher,

2006. - graduated Russian Academy Civil Services under the President of the Russian Federation, majoring in State and Municipal Administration.

ACTIVITIES BEFORE JOINING THE COSMONAUTE TEAM:

since October 1986- at the disposal of the commander of the Air Force of the Baltic Fleet;

since December 11, 1986- assistant commander of the ship, since February 10, 1989- commander of the ship of the 12th separate naval missile-carrying aviation regiment of the Air Force of the Baltic Fleet, Ostrov, Pskov region;

since June 15, 1989- commander of the Tu-16 squadron of the 240th Guards Naval Missile-Carrying Aviation Regiment of the Baltic Fleet, Bykhov, Mogilev Region, BSSR;

since March 20, 1991- senior pilot of the Su-24 of the 15th separate long-range reconnaissance aviation regiment of the Air Force of the Baltic Fleet, Kaliningrad;

since July 1, 1991- senior pilot of the Su-24M, from July 2, 1992- commander of the aviation detachment of the Separate State Air Defense Test Center, Priozersk, Dzhezkazgan region, Kazakhstan;

since June 27, 1994- ship commander since January 6, 1995- commander of the aviation detachment of the 144th separate air defense regiment of A-50 aircraft (analogous to the AWACS system), Pechora;

since September 1995- student of the faculty of LA VVIA them. NOT. Zhukovsky.

SERVICE IN THE COSMONAUTE TEAM:

June 24, 1998- by order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, he was appointed to the post of candidate for test cosmonauts of the cosmonaut detachment of the RGNITsPK;

since November 2004- commander of the cosmonaut corps of the RGNII CTC named after Yu.A. Gagarin;

since October 2010- commander of the cosmonaut corps, instructor - cosmonaut - test cosmonaut corps of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Research Institute of the CTC named after. Yu.A. Gagarin.

July 2009 to September 2013- instructor - cosmonaut - tester of the cosmonaut detachment of the FGBU "NII TsPK named after Yu.A. Gagarin".

ACTIVITIES IN THE CPC:

April 2014 to October 2017- Head of the Federal State budget institution Yu.A. Gagarin” (FGBU “NII TsPK named after Yu.A. Gagarin”).

CLASSICITY:

military pilot 1st class (1992); cosmonaut 1st class (2013);

parachute training instructor (performed 526 parachute jumps), diver officer.

DUPLICATION:

March 2002 - September 2002- commander of the backup crew of the fourth visiting crew to the ISS;

March 2007 - May 2008 - ISS-18 backup crew commander.

COMPLETE SPACE FLIGHTS:

1 flight - April 19 to May 1, 2001 - as a flight-5 specialist of the OS Endeavor crew (STS-100) under the ISS assembly program together with K. Rominger (USA), D. Ashby (USA), K. Hadfield (Canada), D. Phillips (USA) , S. Parazinsky (USA) and W. Guidoni (Italy). Flight duration: 11 days 21 o'clock 50 min. 00 sec.

2 flight- October 30 to November 10, 2002 as a flight engineer of the 4th ISS visiting crew on the Soyuz TMA-1 transport spacecraft together with Zaletin S.V. (crew leader) and astronaut Frank De Winne (flight engineer-1, ESA, Belgium). Flight duration: 10 days 20 o'clock 53 min.

3 flight - from October 12, 2008 to April 08, 2009 - as the commander of the Soyuz TMA-13 ​​TPK and as a flight engineer on the ISS together with astronaut Michael Fink. During the flight, he performed two exits to outer space with a total duration of 10 hours 25 minutes.
Flight duration: 178 days 00 h. 14 min. Callsign: "Titanium".

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY:

doctor of technical sciences (2010), has more than 40 scientific papers.

AWARDS:

medal "Gold Star" of the Hero of the Russian Federation (2003),
Medal "For Distinction in military service» I degree,
medals "For military valor" I, II, III degree,
medal "Nesterov" (2009)
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree (April 12, 2010),
Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" (2011).

Yuri Lonchakov / Photo from izvestia.ru

A real scandal at the Cosmonaut Training Center (TsPK) them. Gagarin flared up after the departure of Gennady Padalka from there, Kazinform reports.

On April 25, the head of the CTC, pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation Yuri Lonchakov posted an appeal "From the first person" on the center's website.

"On April 28, Gennady Padalka, a high professional, cosmonaut with tremendous experience, is expected to leave the detachment. G. Padalka's voluntary resignation was signed last week. At the same time, it is necessary to take into account the age of the cosmonaut, who turns 59 this summer. It should not be forgotten that work at the International space station, work in outer space is not only a high risk, but also stress for the human body, as well as a blow to health," Yuri Lonchakov wrote.

The head of the CPC denied the information in the media that the CPC was firing cosmonauts indiscriminately. Yuri Lonchakov expressed the opinion that the CTC has come to the point where many cosmonauts are leaving flight positions, mainly for health reasons.

"Nevertheless, the CTC today successfully continues to train a new generation of cosmonauts, who will soon be assigned to the crews. The time has come when it is necessary to give way to the young generation of cosmonauts," Yuri Lonchakov believes.

In response to an appeal from the head of the CPC, space flight record holder, Hero of the Russian Federation Gennady Padalka published an open letter on April 27, in which he accused the CPC of lying, nepotism and desertion and proposed to dismiss Yuri Lonchakov from the post of head.

"The man who abandoned the crew, abandoned the Center and after a while returned with a" triumph "as the head of the Cosmonaut Training Center - the question is: how is this possible? - Gennady Padalka is indignant. - He, as a leader, should be removed as soon as possible, and not one, but with a part a team that is recruited not on the basis of professionalism and authority, but on the principle of loyalty, personal devotion and nepotism. Otherwise, the center will be completely ruined."

It is reported that three more cosmonauts also left the Roscosmos detachment: Sergei Volkov, Alexander Samokutyaev and Sergei Revin. According to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who explained the situation, the reason for the reduction is the planned rejuvenation of the personnel of the Russian cosmonaut corps.

According to Wikipedia, Yuri Lonchakov was born on March 4, 1965 in the city of Balkhash, Dzhezkazgan region. In Aktobe he graduated high school No. 22, as well as the School of Young Pilots named after V.I. Patsaev. Graduate of the Orenburg Higher Military Aviation School named after I.S. Polbin and the Air Force Engineering Academy named after N. E. Zhukovsky.

Made three flights into space. From April 19 to May 1, 2001 - as a specialist on the Endeavor STS-100 shuttle under the ISS assembly program. From October 30 to November 10, 2002 - as a flight engineer, together with Sergei Zalyotin and Frank De Winne. From October 12, 2008 to April 8, 2009 - as Soyuz TMA-13 ​​spacecraft commander and ISS Expedition 18 flight engineer together with Michael Fink and Richard Garriott. Twice went into open space.

On September 24, 2010, Yuri Lonchakov was approved as the commander of the detachment of the Yu. A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. In 2013, he resigned from the CPC, but a month later he returned again. On April 7, 2013, he was appointed head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

Birthday March 04, 1965

Russian cosmonaut

Biography

Born on March 4, 1965 in the city of Balkhash, Dzhezkazgan Region, Kazakh SSR. In Aktyubinsk, he graduated from school No. 22. He entered the Orenburg Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots (VVAUL) named after I. S. Polbin with a degree in Command Tactical Naval Missile-Carrying Aviation. In 1998, he graduated from the Air Force Engineering Academy (VVIA) named after N. E. Zhukovsky with a degree in Testing Aircraft and Their Systems, and received the qualification of a pilot-engineer-researcher.

From 1986 to 1995 he served in the naval aviation units of the Baltic Fleet, and then in the air defense units. In 1998, Lonchakov graduated from the Higher Military Engineering Academy named after N. E. Zhukovsky and was enrolled in the cosmonaut corps.

By the decision of the Higher Attestation Commission dated September 24, 2010, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences. On the same day, Colonel Yuri Lonchakov was approved as the Detachment Commander of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

space flights

  • From April 19 to May 1, 2001 as a specialist on the Endeavor STS-100 shuttle under the ISS assembly program. The flight duration was 11 days 21 hours 31 minutes 14 seconds.
  • From October 30 to November 10, 2002 as a flight engineer, together with Sergei Zaletin and Frank De Winne. Start at Soyuz TMA-1, landing at Soyuz TM-34. The flight duration was 10 days 20 hours 53 minutes 09 seconds.

Launched on October 12, 2008 at 07:01:33.243 UTC (11:01:33.243 Moscow time) as Soyuz TMA-13 ​​spacecraft commander and ISS Expedition 18 flight engineer together with Michael Fink and Richard Garriott. On October 14, 2008 at 08:26:14 UTC (12:26:14 Moscow time) the spacecraft was docked with the ISS (to the docking port of FGB Zarya).

During the flight, he performed two spacewalks: 12/24/2008 - duration 5 hours 38 minutes. The astronauts assembled the scientific equipment for the European EXPOSE-R experiment, installed the scientific equipment for the Impulse experiment on the Zvezda module, and also removed the second of the three Biorisk-MSN containers from the Pirs SO. 03/10/2009 - duration 4 hours 49 minutes. The astronauts installed equipment for the European scientific experiment EXPOSE-R on the outer surface of the Zvezda service module.

On April 8, 2009 at 02:55:30 UTC (06:55 Moscow time) the spacecraft undocked from the ISS, the braking pulse was issued at 06:24 UTC (10:24 Moscow time). At 07:16 UTC (11:16 Moscow time), the Soyuz TMA-13 ​​descent vehicle made a soft landing northeast of the city of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan.

The flight duration was 178 days 0 hours 14 minutes 27 seconds.

Awards

  • Hero of the Russian Federation (2003)
  • Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree (April 2, 2010) - for courage and high professionalism shown during a space flight on the International Space Station
  • Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" (April 12, 2011) - for great merits in the field of exploration, exploration and use of outer space, many years of conscientious work, active social activities
  • Pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation (2003)
  • Medal "For space flight" (2001)
  • Honored Worker of Aktobe region (2006)