Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalyov is a Russian cosmonaut and veteran of six space flights. He has been dubbed by many "the last Citizen of the USSR " as in 1991–1992 he spent 311 days, 20 hours and 1 minute aboard the Mir space station whilst back on Earth the Soviet Union collapsed. Krikalyov has spent more time in space than any other human being. On August 16, 2005 at 1:44 a.m. EDT he passed the record of 748 days held by Sergei Avdeyev. Wikipedia
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for Sergei Krikalev. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Krikalyov