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Aleksandr Fyodorovich Poleshchuk (Russian: Александр Фёдорович Полещук born October 30 1953) is a Russian cosmonaut.Born in Cheremkhovo Irkutsk region he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1977 with a mechanical engineering diploma. He then joined RSC Energia as a test engineer where he was occupied with perfecting repair and assembly techniques performed during space flights. He has extensive experience in test work under simulated weightlessness conditions.