Background
Yuri Onufriyenko was born in Ryasne, Zolochiv Raion of Kharkiv Oblast, Soviet Union (now Ukraine).
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Yuri Onufriyenko was born in Ryasne, Zolochiv Raion of Kharkiv Oblast, Soviet Union (now Ukraine).
1978 - graduated from Zolochiv secondary school No. 1 in the Kharkiv region;
1982 - graduated from Yeysk VVAUL named after V.M. Komarov and received a diploma of "pilot-engineer";
February 1, 1992 - April 7, 1994 – was studying at the International Center of Educational Systems, Faculty of "Aerospace Ecology", specialization "System-Aerospace Methods of Environmentally Sustainable Nature Management". Was qualified as "Engineer-ecologist" and issued an international certificate for the title of "master of environmental management";
in 2007 - graduated from the VVA named after Yu.A. Gagarin with a gold medal. Was qualified as specialist in the field of management in the speciality of "Management of military units and formations of the Air Force".
Onufriyenko was selected as a cosmonaut candidate in 1989. From September 1989 to January 1991, he underwent a course of general space training. Starting April 1991, he underwent training as a member of test cosmonauts group. Starting March 1994, he entered flight training to be the commander of the stand-by crew of the Mir-18 expedition aboard the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft and the Mir space station as part of the Shuttle-Mir program.
Onufriyenko and his wife, Valentina Mikhailovna Onufrienko, have two sons, Yuri, born in 1982 and Aleksandr, born in 1990 and one daughter, Elena, born in 1988. He has two older brothers and his parents are deceased.
