sentences:  In 1979, he graduated with a major in computer engineering from the Engineering Faculty at the Dzerzhinsky Military Academy.He served as a military engineer in the 15th Command near Ussuriysk in the Russian Far East.In 1983, Safronov was transferred to the Titov Space Center (Главный испытательный центр испытаний и управления космическими средствами) in Krasnoznamensk, a closed town in Moscow Oblast.