Background
Aubakirov Toktar Ongarbaevich was born on July 27, 1946 in urban-type settlement named after May 1 of the Karkaralinsky district of the Karaganda region (now Karaganda, Kazakhstan).
Aubakirov Toktar Ongarbaevich was born on July 27, 1946 in urban-type settlement named after May 1 of the Karkaralinsky district of the Karaganda region (now Karaganda, Kazakhstan).
In 1965 he graduated from the high school of working youth of Temirtau. And finished his education in 1979, when he graduated from the evening department of the Zhukovsky branch of the Moscow Order of Lenin Aviation Institute (MAI) named after S. Ordzhonikidze in the specialty Engineer-aerodynamic mechanic.
His inerest in cosmonautics led him to his first flight, which occured From 2 of October to the 10th ofOctober in 1991, as an exploration cosmonaut, the visit expedition to the Mir space station under the Kazakhstan program. Started on Soyuz TM-13, together with Alexander Volkov and Franz Fibek (Austria), landing at Soyuz TM-12 with Anatoly Artsebarsky and Franz Fibek (Austria). Callsign was "Donbass-2" (at start) / "Ozone-2" (when landing).
The first sugestion to become an astronaut he received in 1985, but refused, not wanting to give up the test job. In late 1990, was selected to participate in the flight of the Kazakhstan program. On 21 January 1991, his candidacy was urgently reviewed and approved by the GIAC, and only after that they sent him for medical examination in IBMP, which he successfully passed, having received "good" from doctors (although with some comments).
