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alexander skvortsov was born in shelkava

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near moscow because his father's job as

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a cosmonaut brought the family to star

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city a town with no maternity ward

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but soon after his birth scorchoff's

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father left the cosmonaut corps and the

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military took the family to morshansk

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and i still

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love the town a very big quiet river a

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wonderful nature wonderful forest very

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good people i like that town and i have

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there are a lot of people who graduated

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from high school with me my classmates

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still live there

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after high school skvortsov set out to

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fulfill his dream of being a cosmonaut

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like his father

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after he completed study at the

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stavropol air force pilot and navigator

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school he spent seven years in the

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national air defense force before

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studying at the military red banner air

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defense academy

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schwarzoff graduated the academy in 1997

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the same year he was selected for the

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cosmonaut corps

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he spent six months on the international

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space station in 2010 including serving

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as station commander for expedition 24.

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after he returned to earth he finished

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his studies at the russian academy of

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civil service to become a lawyer and he

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retired from the air force as a colonel

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it is

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an enormous joy to look down to earth

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and we really want to

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see earth always looking as beautiful as