Background
He was born March 20, 1960 in Engels, Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR.
Astronaut engineer Aerospace engineer
He was born March 20, 1960 in Engels, Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR.
Mozhaysky Air Force Academy. Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces.
Shargin graduated from the Military Engineering Academy for Aeronautics and Astronautics located in Leningrad. He is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Russian Space Forces. He was selected as a cosmonaut on February 9, 1996.
He was selected in 2004, to be the Flight Engineer on the Soyuz Turnaround Management Association-5 mission to the International Space Station.
Shargin was the first Russian military cosmonaut on board and had a secret mission.