Awarded honorary citizen of Simferopol (2017).
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Oleg Valeriyevich Kotov was born on 27 October 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 three long duration spaceflights on the International Space Station logging over 526 days in space. Most recently, Kotov flew on the Soyuz TMA-10M/Expedition 37/Expedition 38 l…
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Awarded honorary citizen of Simferopol (2017).
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Won NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (2014).
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Won NASA Space Flight Medal (2014).
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Career landmark: ISS Expedition commander (2013–2014).
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Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,665 times.
Career landmark: ISS Expedition commander (2010–2010).
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Awarded Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation (2008).
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Became Chief of the CAPCOM Branch in the Cosmonaut Office
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Studied at Kacha Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots (1998).
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Kotov was selected as a cosmonaut candidate by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC)
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And Dmitry Olegovich Kotov (son), born in 2002
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Studied at S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy (1988).
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Kotov served at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, where he held the positions of Deputy lead test-doctor and Lead test doctor
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Born 1965-10-27.
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