Was born on June 21, 1958 in Krasnodar. Father - Ivan Vasilievich - worked as a tractor driver, mother - Valentina Methodievna (nee Melenchenko) - as a cashier.
In 1979 he graduated from the Yeisk Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots named after V.I. VM Komarov, specializing in command-tactical fighter-bomber aviation, qualifying as pilot-engineer. In 1992-1994. studied at the Faculty of Aerospace Ecology of the International Center for Learning Systems of UNESCO, specializing in "conjugated processing of aerospace environmental materials" (qualification "environmental engineer"). Graduated in 2007 Russian Academy public service under the President of the Russian Federation (now - as part of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation) in the specialty "state and municipal government"(specialization -" public administration and national security ").
Air Force service
From December 1979 to April 1989 he served in the units of the Air Force (Air Force) of the USSR. 1979-1984 - Pilot, senior pilot in the guards fighter-bombers regiments of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (1989-1994 - Western Group of Forces). In 1984-1989. served in the Far Eastern Military District, in the Khabarovsk Territory.
He mastered eight types of aircraft, including MiG-15UTI, MiG-17, Su-7B, Su-7U, Su-7BM, Su-24 and others. He flew about 1.3 thousand hours. In addition, he completed more than 300 parachute jumps and received the qualification of an instructor of parachute training.
In the cosmonaut corps
April 22, 1989 was enrolled in the cosmonaut corps of the Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC) named after Yu.A. Gagarin. After completing a course of general space training, in April 1991 he received the qualification "test cosmonaut". Since 1999 he was an instructor-test cosmonaut, since February 2012 - instructor-test cosmonaut of the 1st class of the cosmonaut corps. At the same time in 2012-2015. served as head of the 3rd department of the CPC.
He set off on his first space flight on August 13, 1998 as the commander of the Soyuz TM-28 spacecraft and the 26th main expedition to the Mir orbital station. He made one spacewalk and one into the depressurized Spektr module (the so-called “closed” spacewalk). He returned to Earth on February 28, 1999.
April 19 - October 24, 2004 was the commander of the Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft and the 9th main expedition to the International space station (ISS), went into outer space four times.
During the third flight, from March 26 to October 11, 2009, he headed the first expanded ISS crew of six (previously, three cosmonauts / astronauts worked at the station as part of the main expeditions). Was the commander of the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft and the ISS-19/20 expedition, performed two spacewalks.
The fourth flight took place from May 15, 2012 to September 17, 2012. Gennady Padalka was the commander of the Soyuz TMA-04, the flight engineer of the ISS-31 expedition and the commander of the ISS-32. He went into open space once.
He flew into space for the fifth time on March 27, 2015 as the commander of the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft. He worked on the ISS as a flight engineer of the 43rd expedition and the commander of the 44th, made one spacewalk from the station. Five and a half months later, on September 12, he returned to Earth as the absolute world record holder for the total duration of space flights - 878 days 11 hours 29 minutes 24 seconds (the record was approved by the International Aeronautical Federation on April 15, 2016 under number 17803). Gennady Padalka beat the previous achievement (803 days 9 hours 39 minutes 9 seconds, over six flights), set in 2005 by the Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev.
During five flights, he performed a total of 10 spacewalks (including work in the depressurized Spectrum module) for a total duration of 38 hours 39 minutes.
On April 22, 2017, Gennady Padalka announced his departure from the cosmonaut corps. On April 28 of the same year, he was relieved of his post as class 1 instructor-test cosmonaut and fired from the CPC.
Member of the Association of Space Explorers.
Titles, awards
Gennady Padalka - Colonel of the RF Air Force in reserve (since March 2009), military pilot 1st class (1982), cosmonaut 1st class.
Hero Russian Federation (1999). Laureate of the 2001 Government Prize in Science and Technology. Decorated with orders "For services to the Fatherland" II, III and IV degrees (2014, 2010, 2005), the medal "For services in space exploration" (2011). Commander of the Order of the Crown (Belgium; 2011). Has the Dostyk order, II degree (Kazakhstan; 2015).
Awarded with departmental awards of Roscosmos ("Queen's Sign", "Gagarin's Sign", "For international cooperation in the field of cosmonautics"), NASA medals (USA).
Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation (1999). Honorary Citizen of Krasnodar (1998).
Family, hobbies
Married. Wife - Irina Anatolyevna Padalka (Ponomareva; born 1959). He has three daughters: Julia (born 1979), Ekaterina (born 1985) and Sophia (born 2000).
He is fond of playing sports, jogging, swimming, skiing, badminton, parachuting, mountaineering. In April 2005 he took part in a flight to hot-air balloon "Holy Russia" over the North Pole.
Padalka Gennady Ivanovich was born on July 27, 1958, in the city of Krasnodar. Parents: father - Padalka Ivan Vasilievich, born in 1931. mother - Padalka Valentina Methodievna, born in 1930. They live in the city of Krasnodar.
Graduated from the Yeisk Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots in 1979. Has qualification - "pilot-engineer". After graduating from an aviation school in 1979, he served as a pilot in the Air Force.
In 1989 he was enrolled in the cosmonaut corps of the RGNIITSPK im. Yu.A. Gagarin. From June 1989 to January 1991 he took a course of general space training. In 1991 he was awarded the qualification "test cosmonaut". Pilot 1st class. Mastered 6 types of aircraft. The total flight time is 1300 hours. Parachute training instructor. Completed over 300 parachute jumps.
From February 1991 he continued training as part of a group of test cosmonauts. Graduated from the UNESCO International Center for Learning Systems in 1994, awarded the qualification "environmental engineer".
In the period from August 28, 1996 to July 30, 1997, he passed training for a space flight on the Soyuz-TM and the Mir spacecraft as a backup crew commander under the program of the 24th main expedition, the Russian-American program Mir24 / NASA -5.6 ", the Russian-French program" Pegasus "and the program" EuroMir-expansion ". Since October 1997, he underwent training in space flight on the Soyuz-TM and the Mir spacecraft as the commander of the prime crew under the 26th main expedition program.
Gennady Ivanovich made his first space flight as part of the crew of Yuri Mikhailovich Baturin and Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeev, flight engineer, on August 13, 1998 under the program of the 26th main expedition to the Mir orbital complex.
Gennady Ivanovich Padalka was awarded four medals of the Armed Forces. He is fond of parachuting, theater.
Gennady Ivanovich is married and has two children. Wife - Padalka (Ponomareva) Irina Anatolyevna, born in 1959. Daughter - Julia, born in 1979. Daughter - Ekaterina, born in 1985
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Serial number - 384 (89)
Number of flights - 3
Total duration - 585 days 06 h 29 min 53 s
The number of spacewalks - 8
Duration of work in open space - 27 hours 14 minutes
Family status: wife - Irina Anatolyevna, daughters - Julia, Ekaterina, Sophia.
Education: higher.
In 1979 he graduated from the Yeisk Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots (VVAUL) named after V. M. Komarov with a degree in Command-Tactical Fighter-Bomber Aviation.
In 1994 he graduated from the UNESCO International Center for Learning Systems at the Faculty of Aerospace Ecology State Academy oil and gas, was awarded the qualification "environmental engineer" and a master's degree in environmental management.
In 2009, he graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation with a degree in State and Municipal Administration, specialization Public administration and national security ”.
Work experience: after graduating from the aviation school from December 1979 to April 1989, he served as a military pilot in units of the Air Force of the USSR Ministry of Defense.
By the time he was enrolled in the cosmonaut corps, he had mastered the L-29, MiG-15UTI, MiG-17, Su-7B, Su-7U, Su-7BM, Su-24 aircraft. The total flight time was about 1200 hours.
On April 22, 1989, by order of the Ministry of Defense, he was enrolled as a test cosmonaut candidate in the cosmonaut corps of the RGNII CTC.
From June 1989 to January 1991 he underwent general space training at the CTC. February 1, 1991 by decision of the Interdepartmental qualification commission (MVKK) was awarded the qualification "test cosmonaut".
From April 1991 to February 1996 he underwent training under the program of flights to the Mir orbital station as part of a group.
On February 9, 1996, he was appointed commander of the backup crew under the program of the 24th expedition to the Mir Orbital Station (EO-24) and the commander of the prime crew of the 26th expedition (EO-26).
From September 1996 to July 1997, he was trained as the commander of the E0-24 backup crew together with Sergei Avdeev and Jean-Pierre Haignerre (France).
In October 1997, he began training as part of the E0-26 prime crew together with Sergei Avdeev. On March 23, 1998, the cosmonaut-researcher Yuri Baturin began training in this crew.
The first flight:
from August 13, 1998 to February 28, 1999 as the commander of the Soyuz TM-28 spacecraft and the commander of the 26th main expedition (EO-26) to the Mir Orbital. Started with Sergey Avdeev and Yuri Baturin. I landed with Ivan Bella (Slovakia).
Call sign: "Altair-1".
During the flight, he performed one spacewalk and one exit into the depressurized Spektr module.
The flight duration was 198 days 16 hours 31 minutes 20 seconds.
On February 3, 1999, by the decision of the RCA board, he was appointed commander of the backup crew of the 29th expedition to the Mir Orbital (EO-29) together with Sergei Treschev. On June 1, 1999, the Council of Chief Designers made a decision to transfer the Mir spacecraft from August 1999 to unmanned flight mode. The EO-29 crews were disbanded.
On June 15, 1999, he began training at the Yuri Gagarin CTC as the commander of the prime crew under the ISS-1R program (ISS rescuer) together with Nikolai Budarin. It was supposed, in the event of a failure of the automatic docking of the Zvezda service module with the Zarya / Node-1 FGB bundle, to send the crew into orbit for docking in manual mode. He underwent training until July 6, 2000. On July 26, 2000, the automatic docking was completed successfully.
In July 1999, he was appointed commander of the backup crew of the 4th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS-4D). In November 2000, he began training for the flight as the commander of the ISS-4D backup crew, together with Michael Fink (USA) and Stephen Robinson (USA).
Since December 2001 to April 2002 Together with Kononenko, O.D. passed training as the commander of the backup crew of the Soyuz TM-34 TPK of the third visiting crew to the ISS.
In March 2002, he was appointed as the crew commander of Expedition 9 to the ISS (ISS-9 crew - Gennady Padalka, Michael Fink, Oleg Kononenko). In February 2003, after the Columbia shuttle disaster due to a change in the ISS flight program, the crews were reorganized.
In December 2003, he was appointed commander of the backup crew of Expedition 9 to the ISS (ISS-9D) and commander of the prime crew of Expedition 10 to the ISS (ISS-10), together with Michael Fink. However, after in January 2004, ISS-9 prime crew flight engineer William McArthur was suspended from training for medical reasons, after several changes in the composition of the crews, on January 28, 2004, it was decided to appoint the backup crew (Gennady Padalka, Michael Fink) as the prime crew. ISS Expedition 9. Due to the fact that there were only 2.5 months left before the flight, the ISS-9 crew began preparations on the same day, without waiting for the official decision of the ISSD. Together with them, the Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers was trained on the visiting expedition program.
Second flight: from April 19 to October 24, 2004 as commander of the Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft and commander of the ISS Expedition 9. During the flight, he performed four spacewalks.
The flight duration was 187 days 21 hours 16 minutes 09 seconds.
In August 2007, he was appointed commander of the prime crew of Expedition 19 to the ISS (ISS-19A, since July 2008 it is simply designated ISS-19).
In January 2008, he began training under the program of Expedition 19 to the ISS. In May 2008, after the transfer of the ISS-18 backup crew commander Yuri Lonchakov to the prime crew, he was included in his place in the ISS-18D backup crew and began training together with Michael Barratt (USA) and a member of the visiting expedition space tourist Nick Halik ...
After duplication, he continued his training as the prime crew commander for the 19th and 20th expeditions to the ISS together with NASA astronaut Michael Barratt and a member of the visiting team, space tourist Charles Simonyi.
Third flight: from March 26 to October 11, 2009 as the commander of the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft and the commander of the 19th and 20th main expeditions to the ISS.
During the flight, he performed two spacewalks.
The flight duration was 198 days 16 hours 42 minutes 22 seconds.
Classroom:military pilot 1st class. First class test cosmonaut instructor.
Honorary titles and awards:
Hero of the Russian Federation (04/05/1999).
Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation (04/05/1999).
Awarded the Medal "Golden Star" of the Hero of the Russian Federation (05.04.1999), the Order of Merit to the Fatherland IV degree (23.02.2005), the Order of Merit to the Fatherland III degree (02.04.2010), laureate of the RF Government Prize in the region science and technology.
NASA Medals “Distinguished Public Service Medal” (2004, 2009) and “Space Flight Medal” (2004, 2009).
Padalka Gennady Ivanovich - russian cosmonaut, 89th Russian cosmonaut and 384th world cosmonaut, commander spaceship Soyuz TM-28 and the orbital scientific research complex Mir, pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation, lieutenant colonel.
Born June 21, 1958 in the city of Krasnodar in the family of a tractor driver and cashier. Russian. In 1975 he graduated from 10 classes of Krasnodar high school № 57.
Since 1975 - in Armed Forces THE USSR. In October 1979 he graduated from the Yeisk Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots named after V.M. Komarov. Since December 1979 he served as a pilot of the 559th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment in the 105th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division of the 61st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps of the 16th Air Army Air Force Groups Soviet troops in Germany. In July 1980, he was transferred as a pilot and then as a senior pilot to the 116th Guards Aviation Regiment of Fighter-Bombers of the same division. From August 1984 to April 1989 he served as a senior pilot of the 277th Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 83rd Bomber Aviation Division of the Air Force of the Far Eastern Military District. He mastered the L-29, MiG-15UTI, MiG-17, Su-7B, Su-7U, Su-7BM and Su-24 aircraft. The total flight time was about 1300 hours, he performed more than 300 parachute jumps.
In April 1989 he was enrolled as a test cosmonaut candidate in the cosmonaut corps of the Russian State Research Institute of the CTC. From June 1989 to January 1991, he passed general space training at the CTC. From April 1991 to February 1996 he was trained under the program of flights to the Mir Orbital. In February 1996, he was appointed the commander of the second (backup) crew of the expedition to the Mir Orbital and the commander of the prime crew. From September 1996 to July 1997 he was trained as a backup crew commander together with S.V. Avdeev and J.-P.Eniere (France). In October 1997, he began training as part of the prime crew together with S.V. Avdeev. In March 1998, the cosmonaut-researcher Yu.M. Baturin began training in this crew.
In April 1994, he graduated from the UNESCO International Center for Learning Systems at the Aerospace Ecology Faculty of the State Academy of Oil and Gas, received the qualification of an environmental engineer and an international certificate of Master of Environmental Monitoring. In 2007 he graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.
From August 13, 1998 to February 28, 1999 he performed his first space flight as an expedition commander to the Mir Orbital and the Soyuz TM-28 TC. Started together with S.V. Avdeev and Yu.M. Baturin. The landing was made together by I. Bella (Slovakia). During the flight, he made one spacewalk, duration 5 hours 54 minutes. Once he worked in a depressurized module "Spectrum" (the so-called exit into "closed" space). The flight duration was 198 days 16 hours 31 minutes 20 seconds.
Haveby the Kazak of the President of the Russian Federation of April 5, 1999 for the courage and heroism shown during the long space flight of the twenty-sixth main expedition on the orbital research complex "Mir" Padalka Gennady Ivanovich awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
In February 1999, he was appointed commander of the second (backup) crew of the expedition to the Mir Orbital, together with S.E. Treschev. But after June 1, 1999, the Council of Chief Designers made a decision to transfer the Mir OK to the unmanned flight mode from August 1999, the crews were disbanded. In June 1999, he began training at the Yuri Gagarin CTC as commander of the first (prime) crew under the ISS-1R program, together with Nikolai Budarin. It was assumed that in the event of a failure of the automatic docking of the service module "Zvezda" with the FGB "Zarya" / Node-1 bundle, one of these crews would be sent into orbit for docking in manual mode. He underwent training until July 2000. Since the automatic docking was performed successfully in July 2000, the launch of the "non-standard" crew was not needed.
In July 1999, he was appointed commander of the second (backup) expedition to the International Space Station (ISS-4D). Since November 2000, he began direct training for the flight as the ISS-4D crew commander, together with M. Fink (USA) and S. Robinson (USA). In March 2002, he was appointed commander of the main crew of the expedition to the ISS, together with M. Fink and O.D. Kononenko. In February 2003, after the Columbia shuttle disaster, the crew became a backup crew for the ISS-ULF1 program. However, closer to summer, when it became clear that shuttle flights were not expected to resume soon, preparations were discontinued. In early December 2003, he was appointed as the commander of the backup crew of the expedition to the ISS and the prime crew of the expedition to the ISS, together with M. Fink. However, after in January 2004, U. McArthur, a researcher of the ISS prime crew, was suspended from training for medical reasons, after several changes in the composition of the crews, in January 2004 it was decided to appoint a backup crew (G. Padalka - M. Fink ) by the main crew of the expedition to the ISS.
From April 19 to October 24, 2004 he made his second space flight as the crew commander of the ISS main expedition and the Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft. At the station from April 21 to October 23, 2004. During the flight, he performed four spacewalks. The flight duration was 187 days 21 hours 16 minutes 9 seconds.
In May 2006, by decision of Roscosmos, CTC and RSC Energia, he was provisionally appointed as the backup crew commander of Expedition 18 to the ISS (ISS-18d). This decision was later revised. In March 2007, he was provisionally appointed as the backup crew commander of Expedition 17 to the ISS (ISS-17d). Later this decision was also revised. In August 2007, he was provisionally assigned to the prime crew of Expedition 19 to the ISS (ISS-19A, since July 2008 it is simply designated ISS-19). According to these plans, the prime crew was to start on the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft in March 2009. On February 12, 2008, NASA officially announced his assignment to this crew.
In January 2008, he began training under the program of Expedition 19 to the ISS. In May 2008, after the transfer of the commander of the ISS-18 backup crew, Yu.V. Lonchakov, to the prime crew, he was included in his place in the ISS-18d backup crew and began training together with M. Barratt (USA). On September 18-19, 2008, at the Cosmonaut Training Center, together with NASA astronaut M. Barrat, he passed the pre-flight exams with an excellent mark. On October 12, 2008, during the launch of the Soyuz TMA-13 \u200b\u200bspacecraft, he was a backup for the ship's commander.
On March 3-4, 2009 at the Cosmonaut Training Center, together with NASA astronaut M. Barrat and a member of the visiting expedition, space tourist C. Simonyi (USA), he passed the pre-flight exams with an excellent mark. Since March 2009, Colonel G. I. Padalka is in reserve.
From March 26 to October 11, 2009 he made his third space flight as the commander of the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft and the commander of the 19th and 20th main expeditions to the ISS. During the flight, he performed two spacewalks. The flight duration was 198 days 16 hours 42 minutes 22 seconds.
By orders of the Minister of Defense and the head of the FGBU CTC, from August 1, 2009, he was transferred from the liquidated detachment of the RGNII CTC to the detachment of the FGBU CTC.
From May 15 to September 17, 2012, he performed the fourth space flight: the commander of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft, the flight engineer of the 31st main expedition and the commander of the 32nd main expedition to the ISS. He flew with Yuri Malenchenko and the Japanese astronaut D. Akaba. The flight duration was 124 days 23 hours 51 minutes 30 seconds. During the flight, performed 1 spacewalk.
From March 27 to September 12, 2015, he performed the fifth space flight: commander of the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft and a member of the ISS crew under the ISS-43rd and ISS-44th Major Expeditions program. Since June 10, 2015, the commander of the 44th expedition to the ISS. The expedition lasted 168 days.
The total duration of five flights is 878 days. He became the absolute world record holder for the total stay in outer space. The total number of spacewalks is 10. The total duration of work in open space is 38 hours.
Lives in the Star City of the Shchelkovo District of the Moscow Region.
Colonel (06/15/1999), pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation (04/05/1999), military pilot 1st class (05/31/1982), cosmonaut 1st class, parachute training instructor (02/11/1994).
He was awarded the Orders of Merit for the Fatherland of the 2nd (05/22/2014), 3rd (02/04/2010) and 4th (02/23/2005) degrees, medals, including "For Merit in Space Exploration" (04/12 .2011), a foreign award - the Order of the Crown of the Commander's degree (2011, Belgium).
Laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology.
Gennady Padalka was born on June 21, 1958 in the city of Krasnodar. In 1975 he graduated from the 10th grade of the Krasnodar secondary school No. 57.
Since 1975 in the Armed Forces of the USSR. In October 1979 he graduated from the Yeisk Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots named after Komarov. Since December 1979, he served as a pilot of the 559th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment in the 105th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division of the 61st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps of the 16th Air Force Air Force of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.
In July 1980 he was transferred as a pilot and then as a senior pilot to the 116th Guards Aviation Regiment of Fighter Bombers of the same division. From August 1984 to April 1989 he served as a senior pilot of the 277th Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 83rd Bomber Aviation Division of the Air Force of the Far Eastern Military District. He mastered the airplanes L-29, MiG-15UTI, Mi-G17, Su-7B, Su-7U, Su-7BM and Su-24. The total flight time was about 1300 hours, he performed more than 300 parachute jumps.
In April 1989, he was enrolled as a test cosmonaut candidate in the cosmonaut corps of the Russian State Research Institute of the CTC. From June 1989 to January 1991, he passed general space training at the CTC. From April 1991 to February 1996 he was trained under the program of flights to the Mir Orbital. In February 1996, he was appointed commander of the second crew of the expedition to the Mir space station and commander of the prime crew. From September 1996 to July 1997, he was trained as a backup crew commander together with S.V. Avdeev and Enier. In October 1997, he began training as part of the prime crew together with S.V. Avdeev. In March 1998, the cosmonaut-researcher Baturin began training in this crew.
From August 13, 1998 to February 28, 1999 he made his first space flight as the commander of the expedition to the Mir Orbital and the Soyuz TM-28 TC. Started together with S.V. Avdeev and Yu.M. Baturin. The landing was made together by I. Bella. During the flight, he made one spacewalk, duration 5 hours 54 minutes. Once he worked in a depressurized module "Spectrum". The flight duration was 198 days 16 hours 31 minutes 20 seconds.
By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation of April 5, 1999, Gennady Ivanovich Padalka was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for the courage and heroism shown during the long space flight of the twenty-sixth main expedition on the Mir orbital research complex.
From April 19 to October 24, 2004 he made his second space flight as the crew commander of the ISS main expedition and the Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft. At the station from April 21 to October 23, 2004. During the flight, he performed four spacewalks. The flight duration was 187 days 21 hours 16 minutes 9 seconds.
In January 2008, he began training under the program of Expedition 19 to the ISS. In May 2008, after transferring the commander of the ISS-18 backup crew, Yu.V. Lonchakov, to the prime crew, he was included in his place in the ISS-18d backup crew and began training together with Barrat. On September 18-19, 2008, at the Cosmonaut Training Center, together with NASA astronaut Barratt, he passed the pre-flight exams with an excellent grade. On October 12, 2008, during the launch of the Soyuz TMA-13 \u200b\u200bspacecraft, he was a backup for the ship's commander.
At the Cosmonaut Training Center on March 3-4, 2009, together with NASA astronaut Barratt and a member of the visiting expedition, space tourist Simonyi, he passed the pre-flight exams with an excellent mark. Colonel Padalka has been in reserve since March 2009.
From March 26 to October 11, 2009 he made his third space flight as the commander of the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft and the commander of the 19th and 20th main expeditions to the ISS. During the flight, he performed two spacewalks. The flight duration was 198 days 16 hours 42 minutes 22 seconds.
By orders of the Minister of Defense and the head of the FGBU CTC, from August 1, 2009, he was transferred from the liquidated detachment of the RGNII CTC to the detachment of the FGBU CTC.
From March 27 to September 12, 2015, he performed the fifth space flight: the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft commander and a member of the ISS crew under the ISS-43 and ISS-44 programs of the main expeditions. Since June 10, 2015, the commander of the 44th expedition to the ISS. The expedition lasted 168 days.
The total duration of five flights is 878 days. He became the absolute world record holder for the total stay in outer space. The total number of space walks is 10. The total duration of work in open space is 38 hours.
Lives in the Star City of the Shchelkovo District of the Moscow Region.
He was awarded the Orders of Merit to the Fatherland of 2, 3, and 4 degrees, medals, including the Order of Merit in Space Exploration, and a foreign award, the Order of the Crown of the Commander's degree.
Laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology.