He was born March 20, 1960, in Engels, Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR.

Shargin graduated in 1982 from the Military Engineering Academy for Aeronautics and Astronautics located in Leningrad.

[3] He was selected in 2004, to be the flight engineer on the Soyuz TMA-5 mission to the International Space Station.

However, chief flight director Vladimir Solovyov, assured, “We, on the ISS, are not involved in military matters.”[2] After nearly 10 days in space, he returned to Earth on board Soyuz TMA-4[2] He retired from the cosmonaut corps in August 2008[5]

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