Cosmonaut Biography: Maksim Surayev (original) (raw)
Graduated from Kachin Higher Military Air School of Pilots, 1994; graduated from Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy, 1998; Colonel, Russian Air Force (Ret. mid 2012); was selected as cosmonaut on 28.07.1997 (TsPK-12);OKP (cosmonaut basic training) until 11/1999; hobbies: yachting, tennis, autotourism, computers, sport games, theater, museums, and books; left the cosmonaut group on September 23, 2016 because he was elected to the Duma.