status birth_place mission nationality article_title birth_date selection rank insignia image time name type occupation
active engels , russia soyuz tma-5 , soyuz tma-4 russian yuri shargin
 20 march 1960 1996 rka group lieutenant colonel , russian space forces 30px shargin 02.jpg 9d 21h 30m yuri georgiyevich shargin rka cosmonaut aeronautics
yuri shargin

yuri georgiyevich shargin -lrb- -rrb- is a cosmonaut in the russian space forces .
he was born march 20 , 1960 in engels , saratov oblast , russian sfsr .
he is divorced and has two children .
shargin graduated from the military engineering academy for aeronautics and astronautics located in leningrad .
he is a lieutenant colonel in the russian space forces .
he was selected as a cosmonaut on february 9 , 1996 .
he was selected in 2004 , to be the flight engineer on the soyuz tma-5 mission to the international space station .
shargin was the first russian military cosmonaut on board and had a secret mission .
