NAME AND SURNAME: Vladimir Mkolaevich Dezhurov
          Test Cosmonaut, Lieutenant Colonel. Resides in Star City.
          
   PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: 
          30 June 1962, Yavas settlement, Zubovo-Polyansk district,
          Mordovia, Russia.
          
   PARENTS: 
          Nikolai Serafimovich Dezhurov, father, and Anna Vasilievna
          Dezhurova, mother, reside in Yavas settlement, Zubovo-Polyansk
          district, Mordovia, Russia.
          
   EDUCATION: 
          Graduated from the S. I. Gritsevits Khalikov Higher Military
          Aviation School in 1983 with a flight engineer's diploma.
          
   FAMILY STATUS: 
          Married to Elena Valentinovna Dezhurova (nee Suprin). Their
          daughter, Anna, was born in 1983; their daughter, Svetlana, in
          1987.
          
   HONORS: 
          Awarded three Armed Forces medals.
          
   WORK EXPERIENCE: 
          After graduating from the aviation military school in 1983, he
          served as a pilot and senior pilot in the Air Force. In 1987,
          he was assigned to the Cosmonaut Training Center. From December
          1987 to June 1989, he underwent a course of general space
          training. In September 1989, he continued training as a member
          of a group of test cosmonauts. Since 1991, he has been a
          correspondence student at the Yu. A Gagarin Air Force Academy.
          In March 1994, he began flight training as a commander of the
          primary crew of the Mir- 18 mission aboard the Soyuz- 21
          transport vehicle and the Mir orbital station as part of the
          Mir-Shuttle program.
          
          MIR 18 was his first space flight.