Aubakirov Tokhtar The Ongarbaevich
Born July 27, 1946 in the village collective farm. May 1, Karkaralinsk district, Karaganda region. He graduated 8 classes of high school, then worked as a Turner at Temirtau foundry and mechanical factory, while he studied at night school. In 1965 he graduated from school and enrolled in the Armavir higher military aviation school of pilots PVO. In 1976 he graduated from the Higher school of pilots named after M. Gromov and went on a test work. In 1976-1991 years — test pilot OKB Mikoyan. During work has mastered more than 50 types of aircraft. Worked in the Crimea with a shipborne aircraft. The first in the Soviet Union made a non-stop flight to the North pole and with two refuelings in the air, the first in the USSR raised the serial supersonic fighter MiG-29 from the deck of the aircraft carrier "Tbilisi". He graduated from the Moscow aviation Institute named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze. In 1991, in accordance with the agreement between the governments of the USSR and the Kazakh SSR started training in the cosmonaut training Center imeni Yu. a. Gagarin.2 October 1991, was launched into space together with Alexander Volkov and Austrian cosmonaut Franz Vibecom as a cosmonaut-researcher spacecraft "Soyuz TM-13". During the week he worked on Board the orbital complex "Mir". Duration of stay in space was 7 days 22 hours 13 minutes. 10 October 1991 returned to the Earth together with Anatoly Arcebarsky and Austrian cosmonaut Franz Viacom on Board the spacecraft "Soyuz TM-12".After the collapse of the USSR lives in Kazakhstan. Is in the public service. April 1992 — first Deputy Chairman of the State Committee on defence of the Republic of Kazakhstan, assistant to the President of Kazakhstan in space exploration. At home is the first Kazakh cosmonaut, although de jure it is not the first astronaut born in the Kazakh SSR was Viktor Patsayev, and Kazakhstan in Vladimir Shatalov.
Awards
The Title Of "Halyk Kaharmany" (1995).
The Order Of Otan (1995).
Hero Of The Soviet Union (1988).
The Order Of Lenin (1988).
The Order Of The October Revolution (1991).
The Order "Sign Of Honor" (1987).
Pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR (1991).
Honored test pilot of the USSR (1990).
Two orders of the Golden Cross of the Republic of Austria (1988 and 1993