photo Toktar Aubakirov
First name and last name Toktar Aubakirov
Date of birth 27.07.1946
Nationality Kazakh
Space Agency Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) (RFSA)
Status Retired
Type of astronaut Government agency
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toktar_Aubakirov

Additional information Toktar Aubakirov

Toktar Ongarbayuly Aubakirov (Kazakh: Тоқтар Оңғарбайұлы Әубәкіров, Russian: Токтар Онгарбаевич Аубакиров, born on 27 July 1946) is a retired Kazakh Air Force officer and a former cosmonaut. In 1991, in accordance with an agreement between the governments of the USSR and the Kazakh SSR, started training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. On 2 October 1991 he launched with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Volkov as flight commander, and the Austrian research cosmonaut Franz Viehböck in Soyuz TM-13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport, and spent over eight days in space.