Oleg Artemyev

Oleg Artemyev is a Russian cosmonaut and veteran of three long-duration flights to the International Space Station. Born on 28 December 1970 in Riga, then in the Latvian Soviet republic, he studied mechanical engineering at Bauman Moscow State Technical University and worked as an engineer at RSC Energia, where he specialised in spacewalk equipment and training before Roscosmos selected him in 2003 as part of Cosmonaut Group 15. He first flew as flight engineer on Soyuz TMA-12M, launching on 25 March 2014, then returned as commander of Soyuz MS-08 in March 2018 and of Soyuz MS-21 in March 2022. Across the three missions he has spent more than 560 days in space and carried out eight spacewalks totalling about 53 hours, including work on the European Robotic Arm during the 2022 flight.