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Shargin, Yuri Georguevich was born on March 20, 1960 in Engels, Russia.
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Yuri Georguevich Shargin
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Yuri Georguevich Shargin, Russian flight engineer, cosmonaut. Broke a nearly 30 year tradition of having at least one crewsman with previous experience in piloting the capsule. Flight Engineer of Expedition-10 headed for the International Space Station with Russian-United States crew (with Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov) in the Soyuz Turnaround Management Association-5 on October 14, 2004.
Education
Graduate, Military Engineering Academy for Aeronautics and Astronautics, Leningrad.
Career
Officer Cosmic Armed Forces. Cosmonaut GMVK, 1996. Cosmonaut basic training OKP, 1996—1998.
Flight engineer, cosmonaut, Russian Space Forces National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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2 children.
