Maxim Suraev is a deputy. Cosmonaut Suraev Maxim Viktorovich
WITH Uraev Maxim Viktorovich - test cosmonaut of the federal state cosmonaut corps budgetary institution"Research Testing Center for Cosmonaut Training named after Yu.A. Gagarin", Colonel.
Born on May 24, 1972 in the city of Chelyabinsk in a military family. Russian. In 1989 he graduated from secondary school No. 5 in the city of Noginsk, Moscow region. In 1994 he graduated with honors from the Kachinsky Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots named after A.F. Myasnikov, in 1997 - with honors from the Air Force Engineering Academy named after N.E. Zhukovsky, and in 2007 - Russian Academy civil service under the President of the Russian Federation.
In the army since 1989. In 1994-1997, after graduating from college, he served in combat units of the Air Force. He mastered the L-39 and Su-27 aircraft, the total flight time of which is about 700 hours. Made more than 100 parachute jumps. In 2012 he was discharged from the army into the reserve.
In June 1997, he was enrolled as a candidate test cosmonaut in the cosmonaut corps of the Scientific Research Test Cosmonaut Training Center named after Yu.A. Gagarin. In 1998-1999 he underwent general space training. In December 1999, he was awarded the qualification of a test cosmonaut. Since January 2000, he underwent training under the flight program to the International Space Station as part of a group of astronauts.
Made his first flight into space as a commander spaceship"Soyuz TMA-16" and flight engineer of the 21st and 22nd main expeditions to the International Space Station from September 30, 2009 to March 18, 2010. Launched together with Jeffrey Williams (USA) and the eighth space tourist Guy Laliberte (Canada).
On October 2, 2009, Soyuz TMA-16 successfully docked to the International Space Station, and on March 18, 2010, it undocked and on the same day the spacecraft’s descent module made a soft landing on the territory of Kazakhstan, 57 km from the city of Arkalyk. The flight duration was 169 days 4 hours 9 minutes 37 seconds. During the flight, he performed a spacewalk lasting 5 hours and 44 minutes.
He became the first Russian cosmonaut to maintain his own blog (an online journal or diary of events) during a space flight. On his page on the Roscosmos website, he talked about the life and work of crews on the International Space Station, including growing wheat and raising butterflies in zero gravity, sleeping in a sleeping bag, space products, and why there is a ship's bell on board the station. The astronaut has repeatedly answered questions received from blog readers. I wrote 98 messages in total.
U Kazam of the President Russian Federation No. 1310 of October 30, 2010 “for the courage and heroism shown during the space flight on the International Space Station” to Colonel Suraev Maxim Viktorovich awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation with a special distinction - the Gold Star medal.
He made his second flight into space as the commander of the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft and a member of the 40th and 41st main expeditions to the International Space Station from May 28 to November 10, 2014. Started with Gregory Wiseman (USA) and Alexander Gerst (Germany).
On May 29, 2014, Soyuz TMA-13M successfully docked to the International Space Station, and on November 10, 2014, it undocked and on the same day the spacecraft’s descent module made a soft landing on the territory of Kazakhstan north of the city of Arkalyk. The flight duration was 165 days 8 hours 1 minute 9 seconds. During the flight, he performed a spacewalk lasting 3 hours and 41 minutes.
The total duration of the two flights into space is 334 days 12 hours 10 minutes 46 seconds. The total duration of the two spacewalks is 9 hours 25 minutes.
On September 18, 2016, he was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 7th convocation. He was nominated by the United Russia party in the Balashikha single-mandate electoral district and took first place, receiving 54.69% of the votes.
Colonel (2006), pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation (10/30/2010). Awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th degree (03/8/2016), medals, including “For Merit in Space Exploration” (04/12/2011).
Honorary citizen of the Noginsk district of the Moscow region (03/04/2010).
Member of the Public Chamber of the Moscow Region (2014-2016). Has the qualifications: “Military pilot 3rd class”, “Parachute training instructor”, “Diver officer”, “Cosmonaut 3rd class”, “Test cosmonaut 2nd class”.
In 2011 his name was given high school No. 5 of the city of Noginsk, Moscow region.
The mother-in-law of Kuzbass cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, an avid summer resident, dreams of planting a star seed. After all, the son-in-law went down in the history of the Earth and humanity as the first astronaut to grow wheat in space. And Lydia Kharokhordina’s dream will soon come true!
Although for a long time it was believed that the star son-in-law did not bring a single spikelet home to Earth from space orbit - everything went in the spring of 2010 to gasped scientists.
It would be interesting to plant such a star seed here, at our dacha in Aleksandrovka (near Kiselevsky - Ed.) later. What kind of wheat will grow? - Lydia Kharokhordina, the astronaut’s mother-in-law, throws up her hands. Maxim Suraeva. Behind her, on the wide kitchen window sill, the April sun generously strokes the greenery, and these earthly garden seedlings are not just basking - they are bursting into growth.
The astronaut's mother-in-law talks about the flight
... Meanwhile, Maxim, having rested after his first flight, is already training hard again. And, as Anna Suraeva, the cosmonaut’s wife and daughter of Lydia Kharokhordina, whom Komsomolskaya Pravda reached by phone in Zvezdny, told KP, in the summer of 2014 Maxim will go on his second space flight. And before that, the Suraevs will just bring to Kuzbass... that same star spikelet!
Yes, Maxim received two ears of corn, we will keep one for ourselves, and we will bring the second to his mother, we are also interested in what will come of this experiment - already on our Kuzbass land, - Anya smiles.
... Let us recall that 37-year-old cosmonaut Maxim Suraev flew into space for the first time in the fall - spring (2009-2010) and went down in History, in addition to completing the usual space program, also as the first cosmonaut to grow wheat!
Moreover, he accomplished this feat... playfully (without ordering from scientists, but simply out of interest, having found grains in the stowage left over from the previous crew).
Wheat grown by cosmonaut Maxim Suraev. Photo:
The grown ears of super-dwarf wheat then shocked the Earth: how did it happen? After all, before Maxim, the experiment with wheat had not worked.
And the astronaut’s mother-in-law was especially proud of that star bed in space:
It was not for nothing that Maxim and his family came to our dacha all the years, every summer. Of course, we didn’t burden him with agricultural work. But he himself is a talented guy, observant and a good assistant...
In addition, he and his wife (my daughter Anya) have not just peasant genes, but also a real gift for peasantry.
Both of them, due to their professions, have been torn off from the earth a long time ago (Maxim is a pilot-cosmonaut, Anya is a software engineer, works in Zvezdny, at the Mission Control Center), but at home even the most disastrous flower, picked up on the street, comes to life. .
There are people who pick up stray kittens and puppies, rescue them, nurse them, and place them in good hands. And my daughter and son-in-law more than once had the chance to pick up... a discarded dried flower in a pot. And how can you pass by here?! They regretted it, picked it up, soldered it away. And the flower not only came to life, but began to bloom in such a way that everyone around was amazed.
Wedding
His parents knew that Maxim Suraev would become an astronaut since childhood. He dreamed of not only flying like his pilot father (who, by the way, was from the suburb of Osinniki), but even higher. In addition, while still at the beginning, Maxim brought his photo from school - and on the frame there was a portrait of Gagarin. And it became a sign of fate, because Max has a Gagarin smile and characters are similar. So Maxim studied and stubbornly walked along the road to space, further and further.
...But Lidia Anatolyevna and Alexander Nikolaevich Kharokhordin could not even imagine that their daughter Anechka would suddenly become the wife of an astronaut.
But, apparently, this is fate,” the 57-year-old space mother-in-law smiles. – In her penultimate year at the Kemerovo Polytechnic, Anya went to Moscow in the summer to visit her relatives. And there, in the company of young people, I met Maxim, who graduated from the Kachinsky Flight School and studied in the capital at the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy. They spent a year, as it seemed to us, simply corresponding. And then Maxim invited Anya to come to his graduation. We parents were worried. After all, we all had a conservative upbringing, how to let a girl go?.. After much thought, we decided. And there we just met Anya, and she’s already calling us in Kuzbass: “Get ready, I’m getting married.”
It was so unexpected that the future father-in-law and mother-in-law were confused.
Anya and Maxim’s mother flew to Kuzbass. Maxim and his father arrived by car.
We only had two days to prepare for the wedding. This was in August 1997. But everyone came together together. And Maxim’s sunny character - he joked all the time and somehow easily overcame all obstacles: he agreed on registration at the registry office, got a wedding dress for the bride, found a cafe in a foreign city - and infected us all with his joy,” Lidia Anatolyevna smiles.
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And the wedding was very fun. Before going to the registry office, Maxim tied a whole string of beer cans to the car. And the wedding car rumbled unusually throughout the whole city, causing smiles and wishes of happiness from passers-by.
And we were celebrating the wedding after the cafe, at the same dacha in Aleksandrovka. Due to the fact that the Siberian August night suddenly showered everyone with such a cold fog - to the point of shuddering, the bride and groom and guests instantly took apart all the work clothes from the dacha, wrapping themselves in it and losing their festive look. But Maxim immediately announced a masquerade and a prize for the best costume. And the wedding party in overalls and miner's quilted jackets began to sing and dance further.
At that moment, neither the bride nor the family knew that Maxim had submitted an application and would soon be accepted into the cosmonaut corps.
He announced this three months later, and he and his wife went to Zvezdny.
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Key
Now the cosmic mother-in-law considers Maxim an ideal. And admires his determination and courage.
But, of course, in the first months the mother-in-law, as happens with everyone, closely studied her son-in-law:
Maxim was not like our local mining guys. He was DIFFERENT.
But is it possible to understand a person by a monosyllabic “Hello, how are you?” - by phone?
...By the way, the key to Maxim's mother-in-law's heart was picked up... by a space centrifuge.
Having arrived to visit Zvezdny, Lidiya Anatolyevna, a teacher by profession, asked to take her to the famous centrifuge, so that she could then tell her children in kindergarten.
It was a shock. The brick building - because of the rotating centrifuge in it - is already shaking. The centrifuge rotates slowly, then faster and faster. The acceleration is such that it’s scary not only to experience it, but to look at it... The overload is such that a person instantly ages. I saw Maxim's face. The centrifuge is spinning faster and faster, his face is getting older and older. And when the centrifuge really picked up speed, it was not my young son-in-law in front of me. It was the face of a very old man. And then the speed became quieter and quieter, and the face began to look younger.
This inhuman work - from that moment - forever sunk into the heart of the cosmic mother-in-law.
And then Lydia Anatolyevna lay still, huddled, in the landing capsule - exactly like this, in the fetal position, astronauts fly from orbit to Earth. And from overload they can’t move their arms or legs. But they control the landing by poking the control buttons with a pointer.
And since in her soul the cosmic mother-in-law, in whose childhood the world’s first man flew into space, always had awe of the Universe and pride in space explorers, then she - along with her daughter Anya and growing granddaughters Arina and Ksyusha - began to root for Maxim, so that it would be his turn to go into space as soon as possible.
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...Cosmonaut Maxim Suraev waited 12 years for his first flight.
He lived and worked in orbit for 169 days. From there he called home, told the news to his wife, children and mother-in-law, who came to visit during the flight.
And when the star son-in-law landed and the doctors finally released him (due to a hard landing, Maxim’s diaphragm was stretched and he was operated on), and he and his family then came to Kiselevsk, he surprised his beloved mother-in-law with a surprise.
Maxim handed me a photo of me and my late husband (it’s a pity that my husband didn’t live to see this moment, because he also dreamed that Maxim would fly into space). And it turned out that Maxim took us - his mother-in-law and father-in-law - with our photo into orbit, along with photographs of his parents and family. Together with a lion cub (toy), for which he was assigned to look after his daughters - in flight. He said so after the flight: “You all flew with me and supported me in space,” the mother-in-law smiles.
And also - the cosmonaut handed his mother-in-law space photographs of their favorite dacha in Aleksandrovka. As we approach. Closer and closer, the forest, the road, the roofs, the ground.
In autumn, winter and spring.
Before planting seedlings in the beds.
Before landing the space capsule on Earth - with my dear son-in-law Maxim Suraev.
Maxim refused to star in a space blockbuster
Let us recall that cosmonaut Maxim Suraev launched on September 30, 2009 as the commander of the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft and a member of the 21/22nd ISS expeditions together with American astronaut Jeffrey Williams and Canadian space tourist Guy Laliberte.
On October 2, 2009, they docked with the ISS. Maxim spent 169 days in space orbit and became famous throughout the world for keeping diary entries on the Internet directly from space.
For his flight, Maxim Suraev received the Hero of Russia star.
On his father’s side, Hero is from Kuzbass, from Osinniki.
Married, wife Anna (also from Kuzbass, from Kiselevsk), children Arina and Ksenia. Married Anna before the flight.
After the flight, he married his wife’s brother in Kiselevsk and gave the newlyweds his video letter, specially recorded in space orbit. The whole city gathered for this wedding, where the famous cosmonaut walked.
And recently Maxim received an offer... to star in a space blockbuster - in the role of an astronaut who landed on Mars. According to the plot, a disaster occurs during the landing, but the astronauts will not be abandoned, and the rescue operation, although full of adventures, will end happily.
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Maxim Suraev is an Air Force colonel, the first Russian astronaut, who runs his blog from orbit and regularly answers questions from readers.
Pilot-cosmonaut Maxim Suraev
Many children of the Soviet Union saw themselves as cosmonauts in their dreams and wanted to explore the Universe, as Yuri Gagarin did in his time. Dreams are dreams, but not everyone succeeds in carrying this desire through the years and making it come true.
104th and 503rd - of the world. This is exactly how the hero of this article appears before us. The bright slogan, which reflected the desire to move humanity forward and open new horizons for it, was followed by cosmonaut Maxim Suraev. His biography is replete with numerous awards and merits, and his smile is compared to the smile of Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin.
Below we will get to know this outstanding personality in more detail.
A little about Suraev’s childhood
M. V. Suraev was born in Chelyabinsk on May 24, 1972. The future cosmonaut spent his childhood in the city of Shadrinsk, Kurgan region. Reaching Junior school age, in 1979 he was enrolled in secondary school No. 5 in the city of Noginsk, which is located in the Moscow region.
Maxim Viktorovich grew up in a military family and, even in early childhood, began to think about continuing the family dynasty. But nevertheless, there was no talk about it then. Looking at his father, an Air Force colonel and former military pilot, Suraev, without a shadow of a doubt, decided to follow his father’s path. Space seemed to him then something supernatural and unattainable.
Student years
After completing ten classes, Suraev was enrolled in the first year of the military school. Myasnikov, which he subsequently graduated with a diploma in military special higher education pilot-flight engineer. Later he was employed at the Voronezh Air Force Academy. Zhukovsky, which he graduated with honors in June 1997. Over the years, he also completed training at the Civil Registry Office in the field of “jurisprudence” with further qualifications as a lawyer.
The first "cosmic" steps
At the beginning of 2007, Maxim Suraev already commanded a group of novice space explorers at the RGNII TsPK. Later, at the beginning of August 2009, by order of the head of the Federal State Budgetary Institution and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the space pilot detachment of the Federal State Budgetary Institution TsPK.
On this basis, Maxim Suraev was accepted by order of the Ministry of Defense into the RGNII TsPK detachment as a possible candidate for test cosmonaut and was then recommended for enrollment in the above-mentioned detachment. For about a year Suraev carried out necessary preparation. Two years later, he was already awarded the title of test cosmonaut.
Getting to know the ISS
As part of this unit, since 2000, he began training on the basis of the provisions established by the flight program at Baikonur. Four years later, he was sent to train in accordance with the survival program in force in case of emergencies at Baikonur.
In August 2005, he began preparations for participation in the RGNII TsPK among the above-mentioned members. The result of this operation was to be his inclusion in the work of a flight engineer of the space station, as well as the commander of the reserve unit of ISS-15. Simultaneously with N. Stott and T. Kopra, he participated for two days in a test aimed at surviving in a non-residential area in the event of an emergency landing, where he was appointed temporary commander. The location of this test was a forested area near Moscow.
In early May of the same year, Suraev was pre-elected as a design engineer for the reserve unit of the future ISS-17 expedition. By mutual agreement of NASA and Roscosmos, Maxim Suraev was appointed commander-in-chief of SOYUZ-TMA-12 in May 2006. The astronaut was also awarded this position in February 2007 and officially by NASA.
By a unanimous decision of the Roscosmos board, he was later selected as a member of the ISS-19 reserve crew, which departed in March 2009.
Thus, since January, Suraev was on the ISS-22 team, and in February of the same year, NASA solemnly announced his acceptance into the main unit. In the summer of 2008, he was appointed a member of the ISS-21 and commander of the SOYUZ-TMA-16 crew. This position was certified by Roscosmos, and then NASA made the same decision.
Suraev’s “baptism of fire” took place on September 30, 2009. Then he acted as commander of the Soyuz TMA-16, and also became a participant in space research expeditions No. 21 and 22. In October of the same year, the ship successfully docked with the ISS. And already on January 10, Maxim Viktorovich Suraev conducted his debut spacewalk.
Hobbies and interests
The astronaut considers his main hobbies to be game sports, reading, and auto tourism. In addition, the first who began to continuously share his impressions of the flights, taking corresponding photographs, was cosmonaut Maxim Suraev. Photos of his flights provide an opportunity to see all the beauty of space.
Personal life
In June 1997, immediately after receiving his diploma, Suraev married Anna Kharokhordina. He is also the happy father of two beautiful daughters: Arina and Ksenia. Viktor Grigorievich, the father of the outstanding cosmonaut, was once awarded the post of Air Force colonel. In his youth, Viktor Grigorievich gave lectures at the Chelyabinsk navigator school. Maxim Viktorovich is not the only child in the family. He grew up with his sisters - Daria and Natalya.
Awards and achievements
Maxim Suraev received many thanks and distinctions. The cosmonaut was awarded the honorary medal “For Merit in the Exploration of Outer Space,” which is awarded for a significant contribution to the development of research activities. This medal is also a gratitude for long-term cooperation and continuous socially useful activities.
In his native Noginsk he was awarded the title of honorary figure of Noginsk municipal district. And in June 2010, Maxim Suraev was awarded the title “Valor of Kuzbass”.
Despite such significant merits, the Ministry of Defense did not support the advice of the Central Committee to award the title of Hero of the Russian Federation to space pilot Maxim Suraev. More than once, the CPC sent a recommendation to the Ministry of Defense to assign this title to Suraev, who has a large number of flights under his belt and lived on the ISS for about six months. But, despite such great merits, there was a refusal from the Ministry of Defense. They argued this by the lack of grounds for awarding a title of this kind.
And finally, by decree of President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, on October 30, 2010, Maxim Suraev was awarded the title of Hero of Russia.
Finally
This is the great Russian cosmonaut, public figure, researcher Maxim Suraev. His biography is replete with many merits; the contribution of this man to the development of space science in Russia is difficult to overestimate.
He is the first person to grow real ears of wheat on the ISS. Despite such significant achievements, Suraev did not dream of awards. Day after day, his photographs inspire future explorers of the stars who are just setting out on their space path.
To date, Maxim Viktorovich Suraev has been awarded a high military rank and proudly bears the status of an astronaut-researcher. His space travel blog is viewed daily by a huge number of users from all over the world. He was also the first astronaut to broadcast and answer questions from “earthlings” while in outer space.
Also, the first who began to actively blog during his stellar travels is cosmonaut Maxim Suraev. Photos and videos of his flights give us the opportunity to personally touch the mysteries of the vast Universe.
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