Maksim Surayev
Maksim Surayev | |
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Максим Сураев | |
Surayev in 2010 | |
| Member of the State Duma for Moscow Oblast | |
| In office 5 October 2016 – 12 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | constituency re-established |
| Succeeded by | Vyacheslav Fomichyov |
| Constituency | Balashikha (No. 117) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 May 1972 Chelyabinsk, RSFSR, USSR |
| Political party | United Russia |
| Education | Kacha Air Force Pilot School Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy RANEPA |
| Occupation | Fighter Pilot |
| Space career | |
| Roscosmos cosmonaut | |
| Rank | Colonel |
Time in space | 334d 12h 11min |
| Selection | 1997 TsPK Cosmonaut Group |
Total EVAs | 2 |
Total EVA time | 9hr 22min |
| Missions | Soyuz TMA-16 (Expedition 21/22), Soyuz TMA-13M (Expedition 40/41) |
Mission insignia | |
Maksim Viktorovich Surayev (Russian: Максим Викторович Сураев, born 24 May 1972) is a Russian politician and retired cosmonaut.
Surayev was a backup crew member for ISS Expeditions 17 and 19 from 2006 to 2009. In 2009, he commanded a spacecraft that traveled to the International Space Station where he served as flight engineer for 167 days, returning in 2010. Surayev also served as a flight engineer on the International Space Station as a member of the crew of Expedition 22, and flight engineer and expedition commander of Expeditions 40 and 41. In his career, Surayev made two spacewalks, one in 2010 with fellow cosmonaut Oleg Kotov which lasted 5 hours and 44 minutes and again in 2014 with Aleksandr Samokutyaev in a spacewalk that lasted 3 hours and 38 minutes.
Surayev retired from the cosmonaut corps in 2016 and was elected to the State Duma from the United Russia party. He served in the State Duma between 2016 and 2021. In 2010, he was awarded Russia's highest honour when he was made a Hero of the Russian Federation.