Oleg Artemyev
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| RKA Cosmonaut | |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Status | Active |
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December 28, 1970 Riga, Latvia (then Latvian SSR) |
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Other names
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Oleg Germanovich Artemyev |
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Time in space
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169d 05h 06m |
| Selection | 2003 RKKE Group |
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Total EVAs
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2 |
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Total EVA time
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12 hours, 34 minutes |
| Missions | Soyuz TMA-12M (Expedition 39/40) |
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Mission insignia
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| Website | www |
Oleg Germanovich Artemyev (Russian: Олег Германович Артемьев; born December 28, 1970) is a Russian Cosmonaut for the Russian Federal Space Agency. He was selected as part of the RKKE-15 Cosmonaut group in 2003.
Artemyev was born in Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, present-day Latvia, on December 28, 1970. He is married to Malikhova Anna Sergeevna and they have a son.
He graduated from the Tallinn Polytechnical School in 1990. In 1998, he graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University 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 the Personnel Management.
After his graduation, Artemyev served in the Soviet Army in Vilnius, Lithuania, until 1991. He has worked at RKKE since 1998. At RKKE he was involving in developing testing procedures for Extra-vehicular Activity (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 Zvezda Service Module working on the EVA and teleoperation control system. In 2000, he received medical clearance to begin special training related to space flight operation.
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 Sandra Magnus, Artemyev completed survival training as part of Soyuz training procedures. Again in June 2006, Artemyev, Yuri Lonchakov and Oleg Skripochka completed emergency water training in Sevastopol followed by another session of survival training with Sergei Revin and space tourist Charles Simony in January 2007. In 2008, he was part of a testing campaign of the Orlan-MK space suit.
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