Yuri Shargin

Yuri Shargin

Infobox Astronaut
name =Yuri Georgiyevich Shargin


type =RKA Cosmonaut
status =Active
nationality =Russian
date_birth =March 20, 1960
place_birth =Engels, Russia
rank =Lieutenant Colonel, Russian Space Forces
occupation =Aeronautics
selection =1996 RKA Group
time =9d 21h 30m
mission =Soyuz TMA-5, Soyuz TMA-4
insignia = |

Yuri Georgiyevich Shargin ( _ru. Юрий Георгиевич Шаргин) is a cosmonaut in the Russian Space Forces.

He was born March 20, 1960 in Engels, Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR. He is divorced and has two children.

Shargin graduated from the Military Engineering Academy for Aeronautics and Astronautics located in Leningrad. He is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Russian Space Forces.

He was selected as a cosmonaut on February 9, 1996.

He was selected in 2004, to be the Flight Engineer on the Soyuz TMA-5 mission to the International Space Station. Shargin was the first Russian military cosmonaut on board and had a secret mission.Fact|date=February 2007

External links

* [http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/shargin_yuri.htm Spacefacts biography of Yuri Shargin]


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