Denis Vladimirovich Matveev (Russian

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: Денис Владимирович Матвеев; born April 25, 1983, in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

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, now St. Petersburg,

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) is a Russian cosmonaut.

Biography

Matveev received his degree in computing and networks from the

Bauman Moscow State Technical University The Bauman Moscow State Technical University, BMSTU (russian: link=no, Московский государственный технический университет им. Н. Э. Баумана (МГТУ им. Н. Э. Баумана)), some ...

in 2006. After graduation, Matveev began working at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia as a junior research assistant. He was promoted to engineer in 2009. Matveev was selected as a cosmonaut in 2010. He was appointed to begin training on October 12, 2010, and was named a test cosmonaut on July 31, 2012. The Russian magazine ''Cosmonautics News'' reported that Matveev had been selected as a flight engineer for the Soyuz MS-06 spaceflight to the

International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA ...

; however, he did not launch on this mission, and was replaced by Ivan Vagner. Ultimately, neither Vagner nor Matveev flew on this mission. He was reassigned to Soyuz MS-21, which launched on March 18, 2022. After 194 days, MS-21 landed in Kazakhstan on September 29, 2022.

References

External links

Astronaut.ru biography

Roscosmos biography

1983 births Living people Bauman Moscow State Technical University alumni Writers from Saint Petersburg Russian cosmonauts Spacewalkers {{astronaut-stub