Yelena Serova

Yelena Serova
Елена Серова
Serova in 2014 in front of Soyuz TMA-14M
Member of the State Duma for Moscow Oblast
In office
5 October 2016  12 October 2021
Preceded byconstituency re-established
Succeeded byNikita Chaplin
ConstituencyKolomna (No. 119)
Personal details
Born
Yelena Olegovna Kuznetsova

(1976-04-22) 22 April 1976
Vozdvizhenka, Russian SFSR, USSR
Political partyUnited Russia
SpouseMark Serov
Children1 (daughter)
EducationMoscow Aviation Institute
OccupationPolitician
Engineer
Space career
Roscosmos cosmonaut
Time in space
167d 05h 42m
Selection2006 RKKE group
MissionsSoyuz TMA-14M (Expedition 41/42)
Mission insignia
Retirement23 September 2016

Yelena Olegovna Serova (Russian: Елена Олеговна Серова; née Kuznetsova [Кузнецова]; born 22 April 1976) is a Russian politician and former cosmonaut. She served as a Deputy in the State Duma of Russian Federation between 2016 and 2021.

Before her political career she was a Roscosmos cosmonaut, selected in 2006. She flew one long duration mission to the International Space Station from 2014 to 2015 before retiring from the cosmonaut corps in 2016.