Oleg Kotov

Oleg Valeriyevich Kotov was born on October 27, 1965, in Simferopol, Crimean oblast in the Ukrainian SSR. After a career as a physician assigned to the Soviet space program, he joined the Russian cosmonaut corps. He has flown two long duration spaceflights on the International Space Station logging just short of a year in space. Most recently, Kotov flew on the Soyuz TMA10MExpedition 37Expeditionlong duration spaceflight, from September 2013 until March 2014.

Kotov is married to Svetlana Nikolayevna Kotova . They have two children, Valeria Olegovna Kotova , born in 1994 and Dmitry Olegovich Kotov , born in 2002. Kotovs parents, Valeri Efimovich Kotov and Elena Ivanovna Kotova, reside in Moscow. He enjoys diving, computers, and photography.

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