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Born in Moscow , Russia, he graduated from Moscow Bauman-Highschool in 1969 with a doctorate degree, specialised on spacecraft steering systems.

He was selected as cosmonaut on December 1 1978. After being backup for Soyuz T-8 , he flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz T-9 . He was backup again on Soyuz T-13 and Soyuz T-15 , and had his second spaceflight on Soyuz TM-3 . All together he spent 309 days 18 hours 3 minutes in space. He resigned from the cosmonaut team on October 26 1993, when he became chief of NPOE Cosmonaut-group; since 1996 he is Chief flight test directorate of RKKE.

He is married with two children.