Biography
On April 17, 2021, the semi-annual space travel campaign of the Soyuz MS-17 ship was completed, as part of which Kathleen Rubins worked in orbit, Sergey Kud-carchkov and Sergey Ryzhikov. Last, having passed on April 15, the command of the ISS Astronaut Shannon Walker, handing the symbolic key from the station and wishing a successful mission, presented it with a paper crown. During the expedition, Russian astronauts made one way out into open space and conducted more than 50 scientific research and experiments.Childhood and youth
On August 19, 1974, in Bugulma, Lyubov Ivanovna and Nikolai Vasilyevich Ryzhikov born Son Sergei. The boy was not the only child of spouses. It is known that he has a younger brother Alexander, who became a driving instructor, and his sister Vladislav. A year after the emergence of the older heir, his father went to Nizhnevartovsk to earnings, thanks to a friend, hitting the work of technical transport, and for a long time he delivered the watches on the drilling.
Soon a man who managed to be and a driver of a sanitary car in the 2nd district Nizhnevartovskaya hospital, transported to the north and relatives. They had to settle in the village of the tiponight in the beam with furnace heating and without water supply (water had to be worn on their own), but only then move to the wooden house.
![Sergey Ryzhikov in his youth with father and younger brother Sergey Ryzhikov in his youth with father and younger brother](/userfiles/126/2237_1.webp)
Over 5 years before the school graduation, the family began to live in a well-maintained apartment in the 16th floor. The mother, subsequently, who organized a medical worker in the gymnasium at the Holy Alekseevskaya desert, brought up children in rigor, from an early age being accustomed to discipline and work.
"Nizhnevartovsk, of course, a city native. There I graduated from school, club of young aviators "Self-Selflora Wings", the Military Sports Club "Red Star", was engaged in sports. Every year we flew to the big land - in Bugulma, there was no other transport then. Of course, it left me a big mark, "a cosmonaut confessed in an interview.The choice of profession was influenced by the grandfather, who served in the aviation regiment, who fought and past Königsberg, as well as the relevant films and books. As a child, the future hero of Russia often went hiking, traveled with her father fishing and collecting berries and mushrooms.
From the 4th grade of school number 12, where the favorite objects were literature and physics, the student slept on the floor for a straight posture and always did something useful. The dream to conquer the sky helped the teenager to cope with the fear of height and make the first parachute jumps for 15 years.
In 1991, the guy enrolled in the Orenburg Higher Military Aviation Red Banner School of the pilot named after Ivan Stubbin. But due to his disbandment of the cadet, they were transferred to a similar educational institution as he graduated in 1996 in the specialty "Command Tactical Fighter Aviation" with the qualifications of the "pilot-engineer".
Cosmonautics
At the end of the school and until February 2007, several airlrafts were listed in the professional biography of Ryzhikov: educational in the Saratov region, the fighter 76th air army and the fighter the 23rd of the Air Army and the 14th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense, where he went away from the pilot Before the commander of the aviation link and headquarters of the regiment.In October 2006, the decision of the Interdepartmental Commission on the selection of astronauts was enrolled by a candidate for the cosmonauts of the Research Center for the Preparation of Yuri Gagarin.
From February 2007 to June 2009, Sergey Nikolayevich was commonly photographer, having received the qualifications of "cosmonaut-test", from July 2009 to January 2014 - preparation as part of a group of specialization and improvement.
Then, all the necessary skills and knowledge, he, having spent the position of the Crew in the Flight Management Center, acquired as part of the MKS-47/48 duplicating crew and the main - ISS-49/50.
The first cosmic flight of Bugulma has completed from October 19, 2016 to April 10, 2017, speaking during the expedition that lasted 173 days, experiments from different areas of science (medicine, cosmic biology, biotechnology, physicochemical processes). Together with the colleague Andrei Borisenko, the future hero of the Russian Federation worked with cargo ships, serviced the onboard systems of the ISS and produced onboard photo and video filming.
Personal life
Only concise facts are known about the personal life of a man. He was married, but divorced, and the only son of Ivan, born in marriage, remained to live with him. The child visited Nizhnevartovsky kindergarten No. 66, which in April 2021, the Father handed out hello from the ISS, while in orbit.
In the star town, where Ryzhikov was transferred from Chita immediately after enrollment in the cosmonaut detachment, the boy became a student of the local school named after Vladimir Komarov. However, he did not like learning there, and adults arranged the heir to the Orthodox gymnasium at the Holy Alekseevsky desert. Upon her end, the young man entered the Moscow State University named after Mikhail Lomonosov.
Sergey Nikolayevich is a deeply believer man: he repeatedly participated in the Great-Krestovsky procession, at the mother's homeland, in the village of Kamennogorsk Orenburg region, established a Poklonnogo Cross and opened the house temple.
![Sergey Ryzhikov and his mother love Ivanovna Sergey Ryzhikov and his mother love Ivanovna](/userfiles/126/2237_2.webp)
Before the first space expedition, the future hero of Russia made a pilgrimage trip to Athos, visited a variety of monasteries, in 2014 visited the Holy Earth, and in Houston served as a psaller in the church of the Holy Equal-Apostolic Grand Prince Vladimir. It continued to pray in space, where he took with him the gospel, icons and a particle of the relics of Rev. Seraphim Sarovsky:
"Weekend at the station - Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, we usually completed work in a week, put order. I recorded on the voice recorder Liturgy in the Preobrazhensky temple in the star town and on Sundays at the same time, as on Earth, included in order to visit the service. "Sergey Ryzhikov now
On April 17, 2021, Sergey Ryzhikov returned to Earth from the ISS, where he went to the "Union of MS-17" on October 14, 2020, passing the necessary training in the composition of duplicate and main crews. 185 days at the International Space Station, where repair and restoration work on the "Star" module was produced, he called an amazing time with many unforgettable events.On the same day, the official instagram account of Roskosmos appeared information that astronauts feel good - it turned out to be "confirmed by doctors and imprisoned in the photo."
Awards
- 2018 - Hero of the Russian Federation
- 2018 - Cosmonaut pilot of the Russian Federation
- 2018 - Honorary Citizen of the Bugulminsky Municipal District
- 2021 - sign of Rev. Sergius of Radonezh
- Medal "For Military Valor" II degree
- Medal "Difference in Military Service" II and III degree
- Sign "For Promoting Space Activities"