[FPSPACE] Oleg Atkov's current job

[Rex Hall]

Good Afternoon
Atkov always seemed to me to be the Soviet Payload Specialist. His role was
as a research scientist with a major experiment to undertake. He was never a
member of staff of any Soviet/Russian medical Institute. He was not either a
career cosmonaut.

Regards
Rex

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[mailto:fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org] On Behalf Of Bart Hendrickx
Sent: 20 January 2005 11:58
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Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Oleg Atkov's current job

Jim Oberg wrote :

> Of more serious interest is the information that Dr. Atkov's current
position
> is "head of the department of public health of the enterprise "Rossiyskiye
Rail Ways"."
>
> That shocked me -- I had presumed he would have had kept a high-level
position in
> the Russian space medicine establishment.
>
> Does anyone have any information on when Atkov left the 'space business',
> and why -- aside from a real salary?

Atkov's space career really was just a temporary detour from his regular
activities. He was never part of the IMBP cosmonaut team and his mission to
Salyut-7 in 1984 should be seen as a "special assignment" (a bit like a
payload specialist on a US Shuttle mission). He was originally selected to
fly a long-duration mission with Konstantin Feoktistov, specifically to see
how a long stay in weightlessness would affect the organism of an older
person. When Feoktistov became medically disqualified, Atkov was reassigned
to the mission with Kizim and Solovyov.

As for Atkov's post-flight career, this is the information given by the
Novosti Kosmonavtiki cosmonaut book (published in 2000) :
from Nov 1984  : head of the Laboratory for Functional Methods of Research
from February 1987 : headed a department within the All-Union Cardiological
Scientific Center
from November 1991 : headed a department within the Russian State Medical
University
1989-1996 : co-director of the Department of Space Life Sciences at the
International Space University (Strassbourg, France)
1998-1999 : professor, head of Life Sciences at the International Space
University
since 2000 : expert of the European Commission (Brussels) on telemedicine

I'm not sure since when he's been working for "Rossiyskiye Railways". I
would doubt the salary had much to do with it. I suspect the pay at the ISU
and the European Commission was better.

Bart Hendrickx



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