Name: Nikolai Konstantinovich Lyakhov
Birthdate: June 12, 1953 (Rostov-On-Don, CCCP)
Home: Anchorage, AK
Region: Rocky Mountains
Party: Republican
Education:
Leningrad State University
Prior Professions:
Red Army Engineer (1971-1977)
NASA (1977-1992)
Congressman, Alaska At-Large (1992)
Senator, Rocky Mountains (1993-CURRENT)
Spouse:
Katarina (1954): Leningrad, Russian SSR
Children:
Nikolai , United States Navy (1973): Baikonur, Kazak SSR (Aerospace Engineering)
Tatiana (1975): Baikonur, Kazak SSR (MEDICAL SCHOOL @ JOHNS HOPKINS)
Vassily, United States Marine Corps (March 24, 1977): Anchorage, AK (Bachelors - Physics & Mathematics)
Konstantin (1980): Anchorage, AK (Boise State University - Communications & Advertising)
BIO:Nikolai spent his life in the Soviet Union working as an engineer at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. There he took part in the space operations that had amused him from boyhood. Not a member of the party, he was still a brilliant scientist. He was placed on an ongoing project that was checking last minute numbers on a new filtration device that would put the USSR well ahead of the US. When Nikolai identified errors in the technology he was rebuffed as leadership did not have time to fix the errors. After several nights of working on the numbers, Nikolai realized he was right and if this program did not halt it would result in Cosmonaut deaths. Nikolai went public to Western News about the incident. This branded him an enemy of the state and it was then he received an offer for defection to the United States that he accepted. He would move to Alaska, enjoying the open atmosphere. Much of his time would be spent working on NASA projects whether in his home office or on business trips to Florida. He enjoyed the freedom of his new home and found that soon he identified more as a American. After a few years he and his wife would accept citizenship in their new home. They were now officially American Citizens. Nikolai would become an active supporter of the Republican Party, knowing the workings of Soviet Society as he did, he knew the Democratic Softer Approach could never break the back of the reds. Following the fall of the Soviet Union, Nikolai decided to run for Congress in Alaska, on a fairly right wing platform that also promised to bring new goals to America's space endeavors. Nikolai was elected to Congress for the remaining term of the recently deceased representativefollowing which he entered the Senate as the Junior Senator from the Rocky Mountains.