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Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov (Russian
language|Russian:
Влади́м&#
1080;р
Никола́&#
1077;вич
Дежу́ро&#
1074;) was born July 30, 1962 in the Yavas
settlement, Zubovo-Polyansky District, Republic of
Mordovia|Zubovo-Polyansky District, Mordovia,
Russia. He attended and graduated from the
S.I. Gritsevits Kharkov Higher Military
Aviation School in 1983 with a pilot engineer’s
diploma. After graduating, he served as a pilot
and senior pilot in the Air Force.

In 1987, he was assigned to the Cosmonaut Training
Center. From December 1987 to June 1989, he
underwent a course of general space training.
Since September 1989, he has continued training as
a member of a group of test cosmonauts. Since
1991, he has been a correspondence student at the
Yuri A. Gagarin Air Force Academy.

In March 1994, Dezhurov began flight training as
commander of the prime crew of the Mir-18 mission.
The crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakstan on March 14, 1995 aboard a Soyuz TM-21
transport vehicle. Following a 115 day flight, the
mission concluded with landing at the Kennedy
Space Center in Florida, aboard Space Shuttle
Atlantis on July 7, 1995. Dezhurov is currently
living and working aboard the International Space
Station where he serves as a member of the
Expedition 3 crew. The crew is scheduled to spend
approximately 4 months aboard the station. They
will return to Earth on the Shuttle flight
delivering the fourth Expedition crew.  

Dezhurov has been awarded three Air Force medals
during his career.

==Sources==
*http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/dezhurov.ht
ml NASA Information on Vladimir Dezhurov

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