Do you already graded as a divemaster, non-PADI istructor, 1st-class professional diver or a CMAS 3* diver? Don't stop on your state-of-the-art! At our seminar you can be graded as the PADI instructor. To apply the seminar you have to send us application form up to april 7 and to pass a preliminary test.The seminar will be conducted every day from may 12 to may 25, 2008 at Shatura, Moscow Region. The exams will be carried: out from may 26 to may 27, 2008. :. PREPARATORY COURSES .: for divers & instructors |
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Life and Work. I was born at 1952 in the town of Lysva at the Ural region. At 1975 graduated with honor from The Moscow Aviation Institute and received the PhD grade at the age of 26. From 1979 to 1997 I worked as the senior engineer-tester, senior scientist and the chief of the research & testing laboratory in “The Name of Gagarin Cosmonauts Preparing Center”. I’d resigned Army in the military rank of colonel. At the laboratory in the state of an artificial weightlessness in the hydro surface I’d prepared more than 60 cosmonauts and astronauts from Europe and US (NASA). More than 20 of them later had been awarded as the Heroes of Soviet Union and Russia. Also I’ve prepared 20 other cosmonauts’ instructors. |
| I have about 120 scientific publications as they author and scientific tutor. One of works under my authorities – «the space suite for a cosmonauts preparing in the hydro surface» - now is used in all modern training centers. In such a suites they had prepared team members of the Orbital Station «MIR» and «The International Space Station». |
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As a tester and a test
ruler I made trainings and researches at the state of artificial
weightlessness in the hydro surface and in the altitude cameras of
“The Name of Gagarin Cosmonauts Preparing Center”, the S. P.
Koroliov’s NPO “ENERGY”, the “ZVEZDA” plant (the main Russian
producer of space suits). I was the first tester in history, worked
in the hydro laboratory of the European Space Center at Cologne.
In the state of artificial weightlessness I’d made more than 100 space work trainings with many cosmonauts such as Manarov, Afanasiev, Polishuk, Lazutkin, Kaleri, with the US astronaut D.Wulf and the first French astronaut Jean-Luc Chretien. In a one team with the Hero of Soviet Union Viktor M. Afanasiev I’d tested the “Orlan” space suite in the altitude camera at the 75 km. altitude pressure. Now in this space suits they make space works at “The International Space Station”. I also made more than 50 flights at the artificial weightlessness in a laboratory IL-76MDK type aircraft and 20 delayed drops. As the team member I ruled trainings at The Space Flight Management Center. There I also worked as a major coordinator (with the “Zarya” call) of the space works of the cosmonauts Serebrov and Viktorenko (with the “Vityaz”-es calls) when they tested the space «chair». By cosmonauts I’ve been named “The Teacher” – the highest unofficial space instructors’ award. I started as a diver at 1985 and later had been qualified as a diver officer, underwater working professional, CMAS 1 star instructor, PADI instructor (at 1997). As an instructor 1997 I’ve prepared and certified more than 1000 PADI divers. At 2002 I graded as the PADI course-director. Since that time I also prepared about 300 PADI instructors and IDC Staff instructors with more than 1000 total instructors’ certifications quantity. My current diving hobbies are the ice diving, dry suite diving and a diving in new places. For instance I made the 25 meters deep diving in the “First meteorite lake” (is also known as the “Smerdyachee” lake). 10 thousands years ago that lake was created in the Moscow region (near the town of Roshal) as a result of meteorite burst with a power of 10 Hiroshima bombs. I have some other, non-diving hobbies, such as football and tennis. My favorite work is the instructors’ training. Each year I conduct from 4 to 8 seminars. Except them there is continuous learning on the base of unique Russian PADI dive career development center “Aquanaut” (Moscow) and PADI 5-stars dive instructors’ preparing centers “Zvezdny” (Moscow region), “2B3” (St. Petersburg), “Club Red” (Dahab, Egypt) and “Red Sea College” (Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt). There is learning on Russian, English and Lithuanian languages. I have got my own diving center with a camp at the lake of “Beloye-Bordukovskoye” in the Moscow region. The lake camp is opened each summer 24-hour a day. Every weekend we conduct “The water-cleaning days”. At 2004 one of our members – Mitya Chumakov – had been awarded by PADI as the youngest water cleaner in Russia. Every year from 2002 to 2007 I’d been awarded by PADI diploma “100 certifications per year”. At 2006 PADI introduced honor grades of the Silver, Gold and Platinum course-directors. Now I am the first and alone Russian course-director, graded as “The PADI Platinum Course-Director” and one of 65 men, who have got this award from the total number of 1’100 PADI course-directors in the world.  |