Fyodor Yurchikhin
- January 4, 2024
- Astronaut
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Fyodor Yurchikhin Biography
| Name | Fyodor Yurchikhin |
| Birthday | Jan 3 |
| Birth Year | 1959 |
| Place Of Birth | Batumi |
| Home Town | Adjara |
| Birth Country | Georgia |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
| Spouse | Larisa Yurchikhina |
Fyodor Yurchikhin is one of the most popular and richest Astronaut who was born on January 3, 1959 in Batumi, Adjara, Georgia. Russian Cosmonaut, who was in November 2013 an end to his four space missions.
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Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin (Russian: Фёдор Николаевич Юрчихин, Greek: Θεόδωρος Γιουρτσίχιν του Νικόλαου; born 3 January 1959 ) is a Russian cosmonaut of Greek descent, engineer and RSC Energia test-pilot who has flown on five spaceflights. His first spaceflight was a 10-day Space Shuttle mission STS-112. His second was a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a Flight Engineer for Expedition 15; for this mission he was launched in the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft. He has undertaken two further long- duration stays aboard the ISS, as a crew member of Expedition 24 / 25. For this mission he was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TMA-19, and he landed in November 2010, also with the TMA-19 spacecraft. He served as Soyuz Commander for his fourth mission aboard Soyuz TMA-09M, as Flight Engineer for Expedition 36 and ISS Commander for Expedition 37. In April 2017, Yurchikhin launched on Soyuz MS-04 for the fifth spaceflight of his career, a six-month mission to the ISS as part of Expedition 51 and 52, for which he was the Commander.
After graduation from high school in Batumi in 1976, he entered the Moscow Aviation Institute named after Sergey Ordzhonikidze. He finished studying in 1983, and is qualified as a mechanical engineer, specializing in airspace vehicles. In 2001, he graduated from the Moscow Service State University with a Ph.D. in economics.
He was married and had two daughters.
Fyodor Yurchikhin Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Astronaut |
| House | Living in own house. |
Fyodor Yurchikhin is one of the richest Astronaut from Georgia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Fyodor Yurchikhin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He went to in the Moscow Aviation Institute.
He was a crew member for the International Space Station assembly mission and was on board the ISS as part of Expeditions 15, 24/25, and 36.
Yurchikhin was born in Batumi, Adjar ASSR, Georgian SSR (now Adjara the autonomous republic of Georgia) on 3 January 1959 to Pontic Greek parents Nikolai Fyodorovich Yurchikhin and Mikrula Sofoklevna Yurchikhina (born Heleni Grammatikopoulou) (both now reside in Sindos, Greece). Yurchikhin is married to Larisa Anatolievna Yurchikhina (born in Shchyolkovo) and has two daughters. His hobbies include collecting stamps and space logos, sports, history of cosmonautics, and promotion of space. He also enjoys reading history, science fiction and the classics.
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On 6 June 2007, Yurchikhin performed his second spacewalk from the Pirs docking compartment airlock. The two spacewalkers installed a section of Ethernet cable on the Zarya module, installed additional Service Module Debris Protection (SMDP) panels on Zvezda, and deployed a Russian scientific experiment. Yurchikhin and Kotov returned to the ISS at 4:00 p.m. EDT to wound up the five hours, 37 minutes spacewalk.
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Fyodor Ranked on the list of most popular Astronaut. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Georgia. Fyodor Yurchikhin celebrates birthday on January 3 of every year.
In 2007, he became a member of the Expedition 15 on the ISS. His flight began on April 7, when he launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, aboard Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft, together with Oleg Kotov and space tourist Charles Simonyi. Yurchikhin was aboard when Simonyi gave a live telebridge conversation on Tuesday, April 17, 2007. He served as the commander of the Expedition 15 mission.