"I'm probably like a stagnant horse: it's been kept in a stable for 11 years, it's been prepared, the bars are raised, they teach something, and space is next to the fence, and they don't let it out there yet. Of course, I want to break out into the open and at least bring benefits." Portrait of cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev.




At the moment, cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev has 3 flights to the ISS and 8 spacewalks in his biography.
Oleg spent his childhood in the city of Baikonur, however, he took steps towards the space profession already in adulthood.
In the interview, the cosmonaut recalls turning points in his life, family and childhood, his father's work in the Buran program, life in the era of the collapse of the USSR, studying at Bauman and working at RSC Energia, talks about flights to the ISS and about his wife and children waiting for him on Earth.
Artemyev O.G. - pilot-cosmonaut
15.02.2023 02.2014
Moscow Kazakhstan