About Yevgeny Tarelkin
Born 1974. Yevgeny Tarelkin is a Russian explorer, astronaut, aircraft pilot and aviator.
Evgeny Igorevich Tarelkin (; born December 29, 1974) is a Russian cosmonaut. He was selected as part of the TsPK-13 group in 2003.
Education Tarelkin graduated from the Yeysk Air Force School in 1996 and the Gagarin Air Force Academy in 1998 before rising to the rank of Captain in the Russian Air Force.
Cosmonaut career He served in the Air Force until his selection as a cosmonaut as part of the TsPK-13 selection group in 2003, completing basic training in 2005. Tarelkin made his first flight into space in October 2012 as a member of the Soyuz TMA-06M crew, during which he spent six months aboard the International Space Station as part of the Expedition 33/34 crews and returned on March 16, 2013. This was his only spaceflight.
In 2019 he is crew commander in the SIRIUS-19 ground based experiment.
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Who is Yevgeny Tarelkin?
Russian cosmonaut
When was Yevgeny Tarelkin born?
Yevgeny Tarelkin was born on 29 December 1974 in Pervomaysky, Zabaykalsky Krai.
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Yevgeny Tarelkin is an explorer, astronaut, aircraft pilot and aviator.
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Yevgeny Tarelkin is Russian.
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