Cosmonaut Oleg Atkov Oleg Yurievich: biography, professional activity

Atkov Oleg Yurievich - famous domesticcosmonaut. He is also a manager and a scientist, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2000, for ten years, served as vice president of the company "Russian Railways." He supervised the issues of public health and cooperation with public organizations. And in 2010 he headed the board of directors of the company RZhD-Zdorovie. But most of all he became famous as a pilot-cosmonaut. He has the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Biography of the cosmonaut

Atkov Oleg Yuryevich was born in 1949. He was born in the territory of the modern Samara region, in the village of Khvorostyanka. Soon his parents moved to Kherson. There he graduated from high school.

I tried to enter a medical institute, but notscored the required number of points. Therefore, he had to be content with education in a medical school. At the same time, I began working in the medical unit for a position of a preparer at a local cotton mill.

In 1967, after all, he became a student Crimean Medical Institute in Simferopol. In my student years I met my love. I got married and moved to Moscow. There he already graduated from the Moscow Medical Institute named after Sechenov. In 1975 he graduated from residency.

In 1978 he began his official professionalcareer in the Institute of Clinical Cardiology named after Myasnikov. At first he held the position of junior researcher. In 1982 he went on promotion and became a senior research fellow. Actively engaged in scientific research, received a doctorate in medical sciences. Has written more than 150 scientific works.

He has state and foreign awards.

Cosmic space

Atkov Oleg Yurievich, whose biography wasis closely associated with medicine, in 1975 he received a proposal to be examined at the Cosmonaut Training Center. On the orbit, experienced doctors with an inquisitive mind were required.

A year later it became known that it was adopted ina specialized detachment of cosmonauts. In parallel, the medical commission successfully passed to the Institute of Biomedical Problems. It is noteworthy that his official representation in the cosmonaut detachment did not take place, because he did not want to finally move to work in the institute. But he did not stop training and prepare for a potential flight into space.

Orbit voyage

In the late 1970s, Soviet scientists decidedTo investigate, how flights in space on an organism of the elderly person influence. In the journey it was decided to send the famous cosmonaut Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov, who at that time was 56 years old. He was already in space in 1964. Atkov Oleg Yurievich was supposed to observe the state of his body. The hero of our article began to train intensively in the Cosmonaut Training Center.

At the last moment, the flight nearly broke. It became known that Feoktistov acute chronic disease, and his candidacy has disappeared. But Atkov was already ready to fly. The management decided to appoint him as an astronaut of the All-Union Cardiology Center, which was based at the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR.

In 1983, he was included in the crew of the expedition, sent to the orbital station Salyut-7. Atkov received the post of cosmonaut-researcher.

First flight

In his first and, as it turned out, the onlyflight Atkov Oleg Yurievich went on February 8, 1984. He safely arrived at the orbital station Salyut-7. In total, he spent almost 237 days outside the planet.

Serious research tasks facedAtkov Oleg Yurievich. The astronaut checked the modern equipment, as well as the instruments that were necessary for a reliable assessment of the health of the astronauts. He carried out several unique scientific experiments in orbit, the results of which he then studied on Earth.

After the return, Oleg Yurievich Atkov, photowhich is in this article, continued cooperation with the Institute of Clinical Cardiology. Soon he received the post of head of the laboratory. He was engaged in functional research methods.

Scientific work

1986 became significant in the career of Atkov. He defended his doctoral dissertation. A year later he was appointed head of the department, specializing in new methods of diagnosis and research.

At the same time he led an active teaching activity. Since 1991 he has cooperated with the Russian State Medical University. He was in charge of this department of the department of diagnostic methods.

It is known that today he does not specialize inonly on clinical, but also on pedagogical work. Continues to study space medicine and physiology. For example, I took an active part in the experiments on the Kapler parabola, which were carried out on modern supersonic aircraft.

In the early 90's I decided to start publishing. I started to publish a specialized journal "Visualization in the Clinic". He is still its editor-in-chief.

In the late 90's he was promoted to head ofdepartment of new diagnostic methods at the national cardiological research and production complex of the Federal Ministry of Health. In 2000 he became president of the Russian Association of Telemedicine - Science, which uses advanced computer and telecommunication technologies to exchange all sorts of medical information. At the moment, this segment of health care is one of the most promising, accounting for up to 20% of financing in the world.

Career in RZD

Atkov Oleg Yurievich in the RZD actually began hiscareer in 2002, when he took up the post of head of the Department of Health in the Federal Ministry of Railways. In 2003 he was appointed directly to the company "RZD". He held the post of vice president of public health.

In 2010, I began to manage one of the subsidiariescompanies called "RZD-Zdorovie". In his department were 19 sanatoriums and boarding houses throughout Russia. Including railway polyclinics and hospitals throughout the country.

Under Atkovo, the total corporate health budget was about 2 billion rubles. In 2016 Atkov Oleg Yuryevich dismissed from RZD.