Oleg Vladimirovich Blinov (; born 17 August 1978 in Tatary,

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, USSR) is a retired Russian

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Biography

From 1998 to 2002, Blinov served in the

Russian Air Force The Russian Air Force () is a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the latter being formed on 1 August 2015 with the merging of the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the reb ...

(VVS) as a technician on an

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helicopter. He obtained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the VVS. He graduated from the Vyatka State Agricultural Academy in 2001 with a mechanical engineering degree focusing on agricultural mechanization before receiving a graduate degree in aircraft engineering from the

Moscow Aviation Institute Moscow Aviation Institute () is an engineering research university in Moscow, Russia. It is designated a National Research University. Since its inception the institute has been spearheading advances in aerospace technology both within Russia a ...

in 2014. He began working for

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at the

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as an engineer involved in

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in 2002, and continued in this role until his selection to the cosmonaut corps. Blinov was selected as a cosmonaut in

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. He began his cosmonaut training on October 26, 2012 and was appointed as a test cosmonaut on June 6, 2014. He left the corps on June 20, 2016 before having completed any spaceflight, and continues to work with Roscosmos as the director of the Vykhod simulator.

External links

Astronaut.ru biography

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