President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov congratulated Oleg Kononenko, Hero of Turkmenistan and Russia and Head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, on his birthday, TDH reports.

Oleg Kononenko turned 62 on June 21; he was born in 1964 in the city of Chardzhou (now Turkmenabat).

The President of Turkmenistan expressed his heartfelt wishes to Oleg Kononenko for robust health, longevity, happiness, family well-being, and great success in his work on space exploration," the statement reads.

Between 2008 and 2024, Kononenko completed five space flights with a total duration of 1,111 days. He holds the absolute record for the longest cumulative time spent in orbit and is the only person to have flown in space for over a thousand days. He is currently preparing for his sixth spaceflight.