Biography:Pyotr Dubrov

Short description: Russian engineer and cosmonaut

Pyotr Dubrov
Born	(1978-01-30) January 30, 1978 Khabarovsk, Russia SFSR
Status	Active
Nationality	Russia
Occupation	Software engineer
Space career
RSA Cosmonaut
Time in space	None
Selection	2012 RSA Group

Pyotr Valerievich Dubrov (Russian: Пётр Валерьевич Дубров) is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut selected by Roscosmos in 2012.

Early life and Education

Dubrov was born on 30 January 1978 in Khabarovsk, Russia . He attended secondary school No. 13 of Khabarovsk and went on to study at Khabarovsk State Technical University, graduating in 1999 with a degree in Software for Computer Engineering and Automated Systems. Following graduating he went on to work as a senior software engineer at CBOSS Development International LLC.

Cosmonaut career

Dubrov was selected by Roscosmos as a cosmonaut on 8 October 2012, as one of eight cosmonauts selected as part of Roscosmos's 2012 selection group. Included in his group was Anna Kikina, one of very few female cosmonauts selected by the agency. He and his seven group mates began training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center on 29 October 2012.

From February 4 to February 6, 2013 he participated in winter survival training alongside cosmonauts Anna Kikina and Oleg Blinov, training for an unlikely emergency Soyuz landing in which rescue crews are not able to reach the spacecraft for several days. He graduated from cosmonaut training on 15 July 2014.

In 2020 he was assigned to the backup crew of Soyuz MS-17, backing up Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov as Flight Engineer on ISS Expedition 63/64. Amidst the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, he traveled to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas for training on the ISS USOS.