Call sign: Uragan (Hurricane).

Official NASA Biography - 1997

NAME AND SURNAME: Vladimir Mkolaevich Dezhurov

Test Cosmonaut, Lieutenant Colonel. Resides in Star City.

PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH:

30 June 1962, Yavas settlement, Zubovo-Polyansk district, Mordovia, Russia.

PARENTS:

Nikolai Serafimovich Dezhurov, father, and Anna Vasilievna Dezhurova, mother, reside in Yavas settlement, Zubovo-Polyansk district, Mordovia, Russia.

EDUCATION:

Graduated from the S. I. Gritsevits Khalikov Higher Military Aviation School in 1983 with a flight engineer's diploma.

FAMILY STATUS:

Married to Elena Valentinovna Dezhurova (nee Suprin). Their daughter, Anna, was born in 1983; their daughter, Svetlana, in 1987.

HONORS:

Awarded three Armed Forces medals.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

After graduating from the aviation military school in 1983, he served as a pilot and senior pilot in the Air Force. In 1987, he was assigned to the Cosmonaut Training Center. From December 1987 to June 1989, he underwent a course of general space training. In September 1989, he continued training as a member of a group of test cosmonauts. Since 1991, he has been a correspondence student at the Yu. A Gagarin Air Force Academy. In March 1994, he began flight training as a commander of the primary crew of the Mir- 18 mission aboard the Soyuz- 21 transport vehicle and the Mir orbital station as part of the Mir-Shuttle program.

• Soyuz TM-19 - - 1994 Jul 1 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz TM-19.

  Mir Expedition EO-16. Soyuz TM-19 docked at the rear port of the Kvant module (vacated by Progress M-23 on July 2) at 13:55:01 GMT on July 3. Soyuz TM-19 undocked from Mir at 07:29 GMT on November 4. The Soyuz instrument module (PAO, priborno-agregatniy otsek) fired its deorbit engine, and was jettisoned together with the orbital module (BO, bitovoy otsek) at 10:51 GMT, with entry interface for the descent module (SA, spuskaemiy apparat) at 10:54. It landed 170 km north-east of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan on 1994 November 4 at 11:18 GMT.

• Soyuz TM-21 - - 1995 Mar 14 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 115.36 days. Flight details: Soyuz TM-21.

  Mir Expedition EO-18. Soyuz TM-21 carried the EO-18 Mir crew and American Norman Thagard. Thagard was the first American to be launched in a Soyuz. Soyuz docked with Mir at 07:45:26 GMT on March 16 . On July 4 Soyuz TM-21 undocked and backed off to a distance of 100 m from Mir. The US space shuttle Atlantis, with the EO-18 crew aboard, then undocked and began a flyaround at a distance of 210 m, while the EO-19 crew aboard Soyuz took pictures before redocking with the station. Soyuz TM-21 again undocked with the EO-19 crew on September 11 from the Kvant rear port on Mir and landed at 50 deg 41'N 68 deg 15'E, 108 km northeast of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan, at 06:52:40 GMT .

• EVA Soyuz TM-21-1 - - 1995 May 12 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 6.25 hours.

  Retracted solar array.

• EVA Soyuz TM-21-2 - - 1995 May 17 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 6.50 hours.

  Began installation of solar array.

• EVA Soyuz TM-21-3 - - 1995 May 22 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 5.25 hours.

  Completed installation of solar array.

• EVA Soyuz TM-21-4 - - 1995 May 28 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 0.35 hours.

  Repositioned docking adapter.

• EVA Soyuz TM-21-5 - - 1995 Jun 2 - Assignment: EVA Crew. EVA Duration: 0.40 hours.

  Repositioned docking adapter.

• Soyuz TM-25 - - 1997 Feb 10 - Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight details: Soyuz TM-25.

  Mir Expedition EO-23. Soyuz TM-25 docked with Mir at the forward port on February 12 at 15:51:13 GMT.

  Following a mission that seemed to consist of an endless series of collisions, breakdowns, fires, and other emergencies, the EO-23 handed over the station and on August 14 entered Soyuz TM-25 landed in Kazakstan at 12:17 UTC, 170 km SE of Dzezkazgan. The Soyuz landing rockets failed to fire on touchdown, giving one of the roughest landings experienced by a returning Mir crew.