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Musabayev Talgat Amangelidievich was born on January, 7 in 1951. His place of birth is Kargaly village of Dzhambul region in Alma-Ata area. Talgat Musabayev is from family of the intellectuals.
Talgat Amangelidievich is a trilinguial person. He fluently speaks Kazakh, Russian, English languages.
In 1974 Talgat Musabayev completed Lenin Komsomol Riga Institute of civil aviation in “Technical exploitation of aviation radioequipment”specialty.
From 1977 to 1984 Talgat Musabayev had being trained in Alma-Ata DOSAAF aero club.
In 1986 Talgat Musabayev had been issued with the certificate of civil aviation pilot by Ministry civil aviation higher qualified commission.
In 1993 Talgat Musabayev completed Aktyubinsk high air school of civil aviation and had been given the diploma of the engineer-pilot.
In April, 1974 Talgat Musabayev began his career as an aircraft and radioelectronic equipment engineer in Burunday United aircraft troop of the civil aviation air service.
Till September, 1990 Talgat Musabayev took up different engineer, air and commander posts in Kazakh department of civil aviation.
From 1990 to 2003 Talgat Musabayev has taken up the post of a candidate to cosmonaut-researchers, then as a candidate to test-cosmonaut -, then as a test-cosmonauts instructor, and then as a group commander of test-cosmonaut instructors in the Y.A. Gagarin Centre of cosmonaut preparation.
From 2003 to 2005 Talgat Musabayev has been a chief of combat preparation to army aviation of armed power of Russian Federation.
From 2005 to 2007 Talgat Musabayev has been a director in chief of joint stock “Kazakhstan-Russian enterprise “Bayterek” on setting up the cosmic missile complex “Bayterek” at “Baikonur” cosmodrome.
From 10.02.2007 to 11.04.2007 Talgat Musabayev has been a Chairman of the Aerospace committee in Ministry of Education and Health of RK.
From 11.04.2007 to the present time Talgat Musabayev has been a Chairman of National Space Agency of RK.
Talgat Musabayev is the 1st class-spacepilot He has made three long space flights more than 342 day long.
From July,1 to November,4 in 1994 Talgat Musabayev has made his first space flight on “SOYUZ TM-19”spaceships as a crew shipboard-engineer of the main expedition EO-16.
Talgat Musabayev has made two outputs to open space 11 hours 7 minutes long.
From January, 29 to August,25 1998 Talgat Musabayev has made the second space flight as a commander of international Russian-Kazakh-American-French crew of the “SOYUZ TM-27”spaceship and the orbital complex “MIR” by the main expedition EO-25 (NASA-7/Pegasus )program. During that flight he he had being executed 5 outputs to open space 30 hours 8 minutes long. The flight's length has formed 208 day.
From April, 28 to May,6 2001 Talgat Musabayev has made his third space flight as commander of the “SOYUZ TM-32” and “SOYUZ TM-31” to the international station with the world first space tourist, the USA citizen Denis Titto.
During his professional and public activity Talgat Musabayev has made a magnificient contribution to the aviations and astronautics development and to the fortification of the friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia, as well as in the field of World astronautics.
Talgat Musabayev is a Member of the national-democratic party “Nur-Otan”.
He has numerous goverment and international awards, premiums, honourable ranks:
l the Gold star “Public hero of the Republic Kazakhstan” (1995);
l the pilot-spaceman of the Republic Kazakhstan (1995);
l the Gold star “Hero of Russia” (1994);
l the pilot-spaceman of Russian Federation (1994);
l “Otan” (Republic of Kazakhstan, 1998);
l “Barys” I degree (Republic Kazakhstan, 2001);
l “For Motherland services” III degree (Russian Federation, 1998);
l “For Motherland services” II degree (Russian Federation, 2001);
l “Friendships folk USSR” (1991);\
l Honourable Gramota SUPREME SOVIET Kazakh SSR (1984);
l The Medal “Astana” (1999);
l The Jubilee medal “10 years to Astana» (2008);
l The Austrian order “Silver eagle” (1991);
l The Medal “For soldierly valor” I degree ;
l The Medal “For perfect soldier service”;
l The Special medal NASA “For space flight” (USA, 1998);
l De-Lava Special medal of FAI.
l For world record in setting up the the big mass space object (248 673,7 kgs);
l The Order “Petr Great I degree” of Russian Academy of the defence, safety and law and order (2005).
Talgat Musabayev is the USSR master of sports in aerobatics; the USSR master of sports in atheletics; the USSR champion in aerobatics in command test (1983, 1984);
Talgat Musabayev is the honourable person of Kazakhstan, Russia and USA areas, cities and regions;
Talgat Musabayev is the honourable Professor of several Kazakhstan Universities, the Member of many international, Russian and Kazakhstan Academies in sciences, a Doctor of Technical sciences in the cosmic technology field.
Talgat Musabayev is the author of more than thirty scientific works.
The Ranks: the Major-General of the Air Force(s) of Russian Federation (2003); the Lieutenant-General of Aviations of Republic of Kazakhstan (2007).






