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Valery Ivanovich TOKAREV
ISS Flight Engineer,
Soyuz TMA TSC Commander,
RF AF Colonel,
Test Cosmonaut of Yu. A. Gagarin
CTC, Russia
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: October 29, 1952, Kapustin Yar,
Vladimir Region, Astrakhan Area, RSFSR (Russia).
Father: Ivan Pavlovich Tokarev, (1926 - 1972).
Mother: Lidia Nokolaevna Tokareva (Burova), born in 1928, a pensioner.
EDUCATION: In 1973 he graduated from Stavropol Higher
Military Aviation School for Pilots and Navigators. In
1982 he completed with honours his studies at the Test
Pilot Training Center (TPTC) in Ahtubinsk. In 1989-1993
he studied by correspondence at the Yu. A. Gagarin Military
Air Academy in Monino and in 1996-1997 - at the Academy
of National Economy under the Russian Federation Government,
full-time/correspondence tuition.
FAMILY STATUS: Married.
Wife: Irina Nikolaevna Tokareva (Gavrilova), born in 1955,
a guide, a house-wife.
Daughter: Olga Valerievna Lachko (Tokareva), born in 1976,
a secretary-reader.
Son: Ivan Valerievich Tokarev, born in 1987.
AWARDS AND RANKS: Hero of the Russian Federation (2000),
Pilot Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation (1999), decorated
with the Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Russian Federation,
Order for Service to Motherland in the USSR Air Forces
Third Class (1978), RF Medals, Spacecflight Medal, NASA
(1999). Honourary Citizen of Rostov, Yaroslavl Area.
HOBBY: Sports and games, tennis, motoring, out-door rest.
WORK EXPERIENCE: From 1973 to 1981 he served as a pilot,
master pilot, commander of the flight section, deputy commander
of the air squardron of the fighter air regiment in the
Air Force troops of Privolzh'ye military district.
Since 1982 after completion of studies at TPTC he had been
engaged in the test operation.
From 1982 to 1992 he served as a test pilot, master test
pilot of a branch of the State Red Banner Research/Test
Institute of Air Forces (AF GKNII) after V.P. Chkalov in
the Crimea, Odessa military district. He mastered more
than 40 types of airplanes and helicopters, logged more
than 3000 hours. Participated in more than 70 tests. He
has a qualification of a 1-st Class Military Pilot, 1-st
Class Military Test Pilot.
On January 15, 1993 by Order of the Ministry of Defence
of the Russian Federation he was assigned to the following
post: a test cosmonaut, master test pilot of AF GKNII cosmonaut
team.
In January 1994 he was assigned to a post of AF GKNII cosmonaut
team commander.
In 1996 by directive of AF General headquarters the cosmonaut
team of AF GKNII was disbanded.
On September 16, 1997 by Order of Air Commander-In-Chief
he was enlisted in the cosmonaut detachment of the Cosmonaut
Training Center and taken on as test cosmonaut.
From May 1989 to April 1991 he passed a coarse of general
space training at Yu. A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
On April 5, 1991 by decision of the Interdepartmental Qualification
Committee he was qualified as a test cosmonaut.
In December 1998 by decision of the Joint (RSA and NASA)
Committee for planning of flights to the ISS he was assigned
to STS-96 crew.
From January to May 1999 he was in training within STS-96
crew at the Johnson Space Center, USA.
From May 27 to June 6, 1999 he performed his first
space flight as a mission specialist of the Discovery Shuttle
(STS-96) under the ISS assembly (mission 2A.1) and became
the second Russian cosmonaut who visited the ISS.
The mission duration was 9 days 19 hours 13 min 01 s.
He was in training as the second crew commander of the
Soyuz TM TSC (the first Russian visiting crew of the ISS)
under the ISS-taxi program.
He passed training for a space flight in the ISS-8 and
ISS-10 Backup Crews as a flight engineer.
Presently he is training for a space flight as a flight
engineer in ISS-12 prime crew.
August 2005
Based on the data presented by Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center and reference book The Soviet and Russian Cosmonauts, 1960-2000.
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