Sergey Aleksandrovich Zhukov (; born 9 September 1956 in Dzhezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, USSR, now Jezkazgan,

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) is a retired Russian

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first selected in

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. He retired from the cosmonaut corps before completing any spaceflights.

Biography

Zhukov graduated from the

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in 1979 with a degree in

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

, specializing in

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. In 1986, Zhukov obtained his Ph.D. from Bauman University after completing his dissertation on nuclear reactors. He has served on the

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at Bauman and has over 100 scholarly publications. In 1993, Zhukov worked with ''

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'' in the United States and subsequently pursued and obtained a degree in appraising intellectual property from the International Academy of Appraisal and Consulting in 2001. After receiving his doctorate, Zhukov worked as a junior engineer at the Bauman Institute and also worked in journalism. He has held multiple positions working in the area of cosmonautics since 1991, and has served as a professor at the Bauman Institute since 1986. He has been a guest lecturer at multiple institutions, including the

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. He was also the head of the Moscow Space Club in 2006. Zhukov was expected to join the cosmonaut selection of 1989; however, he was disqualified due to traces of

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in his bloodstream. He was selected in the TsPK-13 cosmonaut selection group on 29 May 2003, and was named a test cosmonaut on 5 July 2005. Zhukov had not been selected to fly to the

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at the time he announced his retirement from the cosmonaut corps on 29 April 2011. On 4 May 2011, concurrent with his retirement from the cosmonaut corps, Zhukov began working as the executive director of the Skolkovo Foundation, which is dedicated to telecommunications and navigation systems of spacecraft.

External links

Astronaut.ru biography

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