Background
Alexander Slvortsov was born 6 May 1966 in Shchelkovo, Moscow region. His father is Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov, born in 1942 and his mother is Nina Ivanovna Skvortsova (Zabelina), born in 1938.
Alexander Slvortsov was born 6 May 1966 in Shchelkovo, Moscow region. His father is Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov, born in 1942 and his mother is Nina Ivanovna Skvortsova (Zabelina), born in 1938.
In 1983 - graduated from secondary school No. 2, Morshansk, Tambov region. In 1987 - graduated from Stavropol Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots and Navigators. In 1997 - graduated from the Aviation Department of the Military Air Defense Academy named after Marshal G.K. Zhukov, specialty: navigator, operational-tactical fighter aviation of air defense. In 2010 - graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, specialty: jurisprudence.
20 June 1997 - by order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation he was enlisted in the Cosmonaut Corps for the position of the test cosmonaut (before the SIMC decision in connection with the end of the academy). 28 July 1997 - by decision of the SIMC was recommended to be enrolled in Cosmonaut Corps (12th set). 1998 - 1999 - passed the general space training course;
The 1st class military pilot, the 2nd class instructor-cosmonaut-tester, instructor of parachute training (more than 500 jumps), officer-diver. He mastered the L-39, MiG-23, Su-27 aircrafts. He has a total flight time of about 1000 hours.
Since January 2000 - training as a member of test cosmonauts group for flights to the ISS. From March 2008 to October 2009 - training as part of the ISS-21/22 backup crew as the Soyuz TMA commander and the ISS flight engineer. From October 2009 to April 2010 - training in the ISS-23/24 primary crew as the Soyuz TMA commander, the ISS-23 flight engineer and the ISS-24 commander. From September 2011 to September 2013 - preparation for space flight in the ISS-37/38 backup crew as the Soyuz TMA-M commander and ISS flight engineer.
From September 2013 - training in the ISS-39/40 primary crew as the Soyuz TMA-M commander and the ISS flight engineer.
1st flight - from 2 April 2010 to 25 September 2010 - as commander of the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft, ISS-23 flight engineer and ISS-24 commander, along with cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson (USA). Flight duration: 176 days 01 hour 19 minutes. Call sign: Utes.
2nd flight - from 26 March to 11 September 2014 - as the Soyuz TMA-12M commander and ISS-39/40 flight engineer together with the cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and NASA astronaut Stephen Swanson. During the flight he performed two space walks. Flight duration: of 12 hours and 33 minutes. The flight lasted 169 days. 05 hours 05 min. 37 seconds.
He is also a qualified underwater diving and powered paragliding (paraborne) instructor.
Skvortsov is married to Elena Georgievna Skvortsova (née Krasnikova). They have one daughter, Anna Aleksandrovna Skvortsova, born in 1990.
