Oleg Germanovich Artemyev (; born December 28, 1970) is a

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for the

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. He was selected as part of the RKKE-15 Cosmonaut group in 2003. He was a flight engineer of

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and 40 to the

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. In 2018, he returned to space as the commander of

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, and in 2022, he returned to space as the commander of

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Personal life and education

Artemyev was born in

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, present-day

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, on December 28, 1970, and grew up in Leninsk (now

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), Kazakhstan. He graduated from the Tallinn Polytechnical School in 1990. In 1998, he graduated from

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with a degree in Low Temperature Technology and Physics. Artemyev graduated from the Russian Academy of State Service under the President of the Russian Federation in 2009, specializing in Personnel Management. He is married to Anna Sergeevna Malikhova.

Career

After his graduation, Artemyev served in the

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, until 1991. He has worked at RKKE since 1998. At RKKE he was involving in developing testing procedures for

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(EVA) equipment in neutral buoyancy at the hydrodynamics laboratory, Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Artemyev was a member of the pre-launch processing team of the

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working on the EVA and teleoperation control system. In 2000, he received medical clearance to begin special training related to space flight operation.

Cosmonaut career

Artemyev was selected as part of the RKKE-15 Cosmonaut group on May 29, 2003. In the following years, he entered Soyuz and ISS specific training. In 2006, together with American astronauts Michael Barrat and

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, Artemyev completed survival training as part of Soyuz training procedures. Again in June 2006, Artemyev,

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and

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completed emergency water training in

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followed by another session of survival training with Sergei Revin and

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Charles Simony in January 2007. In 2008, he was part of a testing campaign of the Orlan-MK space suit. As part of the Soyuz Processing Team, Artemyev worked at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 2010 and 2011. He was the descent module operator for the

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mission. He also processed the

Soyuz TMA-21 Soyuz TMA-21 ("Gagarin") was a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station (ISS). It transported three members of the Expedition 27 crew to the ISS, and docked at the station on April 6, 2011. TMA-21 is the 109th flight of a Soyuz spacecra ...

spacecraft that launched in 2011. Artemyev also has a personal

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on YouTube where he films the daily life on the

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MARS-500

Artemyev was a crew member in the 15-day and 105-day precursor studies of the

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program between 2007 and 2009.

Expedition 39/40

Artemyev was a member of the

Expedition 40 Expedition 40 was the 40th expedition to the International Space Station. A portion of the Expedition 39 crew transferred to Expedition 40 while the remainder of the crew launched on May 28, 2014 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Upon ach ...

long-duration

crew. The mission launched on a

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from the

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, on March 25, 2014, and returned to Earth on September 11, 2014.

Expedition 55/56

Artemyev launched on March 21, 2018 as part of

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/ 56. He was the commander of

. He returned to Earth on October 5, 2018.

Expedition 66/67

Artemyev launched for the third time on March 18, 2022 onboard

. He joined the

Expedition 66 Expedition 66 was the 66th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station. The mission began after the departure of Soyuz MS-18 on 17 October 2021. It was commanded by European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the fourth Europ ...

and became part of the

Expedition 67 Expedition 67 was the 67th List of International Space Station expeditions, long-duration expedition to the International Space Station. The expedition began upon the departure of Soyuz MS-19 on 30 March 2022 with NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn ...

crew. Later in Expedition 67, he assumed command of the International Space Station from

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astronaut

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on 5 May 2022. He spent 195 days in space before returning to Earth on 29 September 2022 at 10:57 UTC.

References

External links

Personal blog of Oleg Artemyev
(in Russian)
Personal blog of Oleg Artemyev
(English mirror)
Personal vlog of Oleg Artemyev
on

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Biography on Spacefacts.de
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