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Toktar Ongarbaevich Aubakirov (Cyrillic
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Аубакир&
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Тоқтар
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#1086;в; born on July 27, 1946, in
Karaganda, Kazakhstan) is a Kazakh military pilot,
and the first Turkic peoples|Turkic man in space.

Aubakirov graduated from Air Force Institute and
was parachutist and test pilot with the rank of
Major General in the Kazakh Air Force before he
was selected as cosmonaut.

On October 2, 1991 he started together with the
Austrian cosmonaut Franz Viehböck and the Russian
cosmonaut Alexander A. Volkov in Soyuz TM-13 from
the Baikonur cosmodrome spaceport, and spent over
eight days in space. He was also the first Soviet
citizen to go into space without being fully
certified as a cosmonaut, as his flight was
hurried forward — several commercial
international cosmonauts were already booked, but
the flight of a Kazakh cosmonaut was part of the
Baikonur rental agreement between Kazakhstan and
Russia.

Since 1993 he has been the general director of the
National Aerospace Agency of Republic of
Kazakhstan and a member of Kazakhstan parliament.


==See also==
* List of astronauts by name

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