He has mastered the Aero L-29 and L-39, the Ilyushin Il-22, and the Tupolev Tu-134, and has also accumulated 450 flight hours. Volkov was awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation medal and Russian Federation Armed Forces medals.Īfter graduating from Tambov Air Force Academy, Volkov served in the air force as an assistant aircraft commander. He graduated in 1995 with a degree of pilot/engineer. Volkov graduated from Star City high school in 1990 and entered the Tambov Air Force Academy for Pilots. His recreational activities include tennis, windsurfing, reading, and visiting museums. Volkov and his wife Natalia have a son who was born in 2001. He was born on 1 April 1973 in Chuhuiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. Volkov is the first second-generation cosmonaut (and space walker), the son of cosmonaut Aleksandr Volkov. Volkov retired from the Cosmonaut group in February 2017. During his missions he did four spacewalks lasting more than 23 hours in total. He was a member of three missions to the International Space Station, spending more than a year in total in space. Sergey Aleksandrovich Volkov ( Russian: Сергей Александрович Волков born 1 April 1973) is a retired Russian cosmonaut and engineer.
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