NAME: Oleg Valerievich
Kotov, M.D. (Colonel, Russian Air Force)
Test-Cosmonaut for Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
PERSONAL DATA: Born October 27, 1965, in Simferopol. His parents, Valeri
Efimovich and Elena Ivanovna Kotov, reside in Moscow. Married to Svetlana Nikolayevna
Kotova (previously, Bunyakina). They have two children. He enjoys diving,
computers, and photography.
EDUCATION: In 1982 Dr. Kotov finished high school in Moscow and
entered the Kirov Military Medical Academy, from which he graduated in 1988.
EXPERIENCE : After graduation from the Academy in 1988, Dr. Kotov served
at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, where he held the positions of Deputy
lead test-doctor and Lead test doctor.
During
his service he dealt with problems of altitude physiology and space flight
effects on a human body. He gained experience in practical training and medical
support of EVAs on the Russian
Mir Space Station, and was a crew surgeon and instructor for biomedical
training and science program training. He is a certified SCUBA diver.
He
was selected as a cosmonaut candidate by GCTC in 1996. From June 1996 to March
1998, he completed a course of basic training for spaceflight. In March 1998,
he received a test-cosmonaut qualification.
Since
July 1998, Dr. Kotov has been a cosmonaut-researcher and test-cosmonaut of the
GCTC Cosmonaut Office. From May-August 1998, Dr. Kotov trained for a flight on
the Soyuz and the Mir station as a backup crewmember to the Mir-26 mission.
Since
October 1998, he has been undergoing advanced training for ISS flights. He
served as a flight engineer and Soyuz commander on the ISS
Expedition-6 and ISS
Expedition-13 backup crews.
From
February-October 1999 he served as a Representative of GCTC (DOH) at JSC.
During 2001-2002 he worked as a CAPCOM for Expedition-3 and 4 in MCC-M and
Moscow Support Group in MCC-H. In 2004 he became Chief of the CAPCOM Branch in
the Cosmonaut Office.
Dr.
Kotov is assigned as flight engineer and Soyuz commander on the Expedition-15
mission to the International
Space Station, arriving at the complex aboard a Soyuz spacecraft scheduled
to launch in April 2007, for a six month tour of duty aboard the Station.
Last
updated: November 2006.
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