Anatoly Artsebarsky

• Mir EO -9   Soyuz TM -12 ( 1991)

Anatoli Pavlovich Artsebarsky (Russian Анатолий Павлович Арцебарский; born September 9, 1956 in Prosjanaja, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR ) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent.

Space flights

Special features of the Soyuz TM -12 mission

Artsebarsky was stationed during the dissolution of the Soviet Union on Mir. He was started on May 18, 1991, experienced in space, the choice of Boris Yeltsin as president, the coup in Moscow and the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine.

For political reasons, the Kazakh Toktar Aubakirow was sent to me in October 1991 instead of the planned long-term separation from Russia, cosmonaut without long-term experience, who returned after eight days on the earth. The living already on the Mir station cosmonaut Sergei Krikaljow had to extend his stay for half a year. The Russians thus came to meet a requirement of the soon independent Republic of Kazakhstan, on whose territory the Baikonur Cosmodrome is located.

Artsebarsky is married and has four children.