Alexey Vitalyevich Zubritsky (; born 22 August 1992) is a Russian cosmonaut. Born in the

Zaporizhzhia Oblast Zaporizhzhia Oblast (), commonly referred to as Zaporizhzhia (), is an oblast (region) in south-east Ukraine. Its administrative centre is the city of Zaporizhzhia. The oblast covers an area of , and has a population of The oblast is an import ...

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, Zubritsky received a bachelor's degree from the

Ivan Kozhedub National University of the Air Force The Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv National Air Force University ( KNAFU, ) is a state university administered by the Ministry of Defence (Ukraine), Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and is located in the city of Kharkiv. The university is named in honor of ...

studying Military Administration, Management of Aviation Units, and Flight Operation and Combat Use of Aircraft. He was selected to join the

Roscosmos Cosmonaut Corps The Cosmonaut Corps () is a unit of the Russia's Roscosmos state corporation that selects, trains, and provides cosmonauts as crew members for the Russian Federation and international space missions. It is part of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Tra ...

in 2018 and made his first flight to space on

Soyuz MS-27 Soyuz MS-27 is a Russian crewed Soyuz spaceflight that launched on 8April 2025 from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, bound for the International Space Station. The spacecraft was launched aboard a Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying three crew mem ...

on 8 April 2025 and served as a flight engineer on the

International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was Assembly of the International Space Station, assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United ...

during

Expedition 72 Expedition 72 was the 72nd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). The expedition began with the departure of Soyuz MS-25 on 23 September 2024 with NASA astronaut Sunita Williams taking over the ISS command. It cont ...

and 73.

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