Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center

Cosmonaut training facility

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2022 Valeri Polyakov passed away, marking the end of an era for Soviet and Russian cosmonauts.
2021 Kiviryan Harutyunovich, Alexander Kolyabin, and Sergey Teteryatnikov added to the corps, currently awaiting space mission assignments.
June 2021 Maksim Kharlamov becomes the head of the Cosmonaut Training Center in June.
2019 Gennadi Manakov passed away
2018 New cosmonauts selected, including Konstantin Borisov, Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexander Grebenkin, and Kirill Peskov.
2017 Pavel Vlasov assumes leadership of the CTC.
2015 Boris Morukov passed away
2015 Gennady Padalka flew on Soyuz TMA-16M, further expanding his spaceflight record.
2014 Gennady Padalka flew on Soyuz TMA-14 and Soyuz TMA-04M, continuing his significant contributions to space exploration.
2014 Yelena Serova flew on Soyuz TMA-14M mission during the Russian Federation period.
2014 Yury Lonchakov becomes the head of the Cosmonaut Training Center.
2012 Several cosmonauts added to the corps, including Nikolai Chub, Pyotr Dubrov, Anna Kikina, Sergey Korsakov, and Dmitry Petelin.
2010 Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Sergey Prokopyev, and Ivan Vagner selected to the Roscosmos Cosmonaut Corps.
April 2010 Andrei Borisenko flew on Soyuz TMA-21, contributing to International Space Station missions.

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