People of Russia

Titov, Gherman Stepanovich (11/09/1935 – 20/09/2000). Born in the village of Upper Zhilino Kosikhino District of Altai Krai. Education: 1957 – Stalingrad Military Aviation uchidische pilots; 1968 – Air Force Engineering Academy named after NE Zhukovsky, 1972 – General Staff Military Academy named after KE Voroshilov. Service: 1957 – 1960 years. – Service in fighter aviation regiment of the Leningrad Military District, 1973 – 1979 years. – First Deputy Chief of space vehicles; 1979 – 1986 years. – First Deputy Chief of the Defense Ministry; 1986 – 1991 years. – First deputy chief of space parts Ministertsva Soviet Defense; 1991 – 1992 years. – First Deputy Chief of the Space part of the Ministry of Defence of the USSR. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 6 th and 7 th. Duma deputy since 1995. Candidate of Military Sciences. Colonel General of aviation stocks. Space activities: In 1960, he was enlisted into the Soviet cosmonaut (Gagarin set "). He was understudy Gagarin in the first in the world of manned space flight. Participated in preparing for flights on an aerospace plane program "Spiral". Space missions: from 6 to 7 August 1961 as commander of the Vostok-2 ", for 1 hour 1 hour 18 minutes. Awards: Pilot Cosmonaut of the USSR. Hero of the Soviet Union. The hero of labor Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic. Hero of Socialist Labor of the People's Republic of Bulgaria. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, Karl Marx (GDR), "Star of the RPR," For Services to the Congo "," Friendship "(Vietnam), medals. He was awarded medals of the USSR Tsiolkovsky and medals FAI name de Lavaux. Lenin Prize laureate. Publikitsii: Book "The Seventeen Space Dawn," "The first cosmonaut of the planet", "Blue is my planet," "On the stellar and terrestrial orbits.