Background
Sergei Valerievich Prokopiev was born on February 19, 1975, Sverdlovsk, USSR (now Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation).
Sergei Valerievich Prokopiev was born on February 19, 1975, Sverdlovsk, USSR (now Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation).
1997 – 2007 served in the Air Force units as an assistant ship commander in Orsk and Ryazan, and in Vozdvizhenka (Ussuriysk urban district of Primorsky Krai).
2007 – 2009 - served as commander of the Tu-22M3, commander of the 52nd aviation detachment heavy bomber air regiment at the air base of long-range aviation Shaikavka, Kaluga region.
2009 – 2010 - served as commander of the ship, commander of the air force of strategic bombers Tu-160 of the 121st heavy bomber aviation regiment at the airbase of long-range aviation Engels of the Saratov region.
October 12, 2010 - at the meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Selection of Cosmonauts, was recommended to be enlisted to the post as a test-cosmonaut candidate of Roskosmos. February 1, 2011 - was appointed to the post of a test-cosmonaut candidate of Roskosmos and proceeded to general space training (15th enrollment). August 6, 2012– by the decision of the Interdepartmental Qualification Commission he was awarded the qualification test-cosmonaut. From August 2012 to June 2015 – he was trained in the specialization and improvement group for the Soyuz TMA-M and ISS RS. Since June 2015 he is trained as a backup engineer of the ISS-45/46 / EP-18 as a flight engineer-2 of the Soyuz TMA-M TPK (under the EP-18 program).
Since August 8, 2012 – test-cosmonaut of cosmonaut corps of Roscosmos.
He mastered the aircraft Yak-52, L-39, Tu-134 UBL, Tu-22M3, Tu-160. His flight experience is 900 hours. He is a military pilot of the 2nd class. Member of the fighting. Participated in the military parade on May 9, 2010, flying over Red Square on a Tu-160 plane.
He performed 140 jumps with a parachute. He has the 1 st category on scuba diving, officer triathlon and football.
Prokopiev is not married and has no children.
