Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev (Russian: ?????ยด? ?????????????? ????????, also transliterated as Sergei Krikalyov; born August 27, 1958) is a Russian cosmonaut and mechanical engineer.
As a prominent rocket scientist, he is a veteran of six space flights and ranks third to Gennady Padalka and Yuri Malenchenko for the amount of time in space: a total of 803 days, 9 hours, and 39 minutes.
He retired from spaceflight in 2007 and is currently working as vice president of Space Corporation Energia.