Coast George T. (4/15/1921) was born April 15, 1921 in the village now Fedorivka Carlo District Poltava Region (Ukraine) in the family servant. After graduating from high school in 1938, started his career at Yenakiyevo Metallurgical Combine. In the same year went to the Soviet Army. In 1941 he graduated from the school Voroshilovgrad military pilots behalf of the proletariat Donbass. Member of the Great Patriotic War from June 1942. The pilot, flight commander, squadron commander of 90-th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment (4 th Guards Attack Air Division, 5 th Air Corps Attack, 5 th Air Force, 2 First Ukrainian Front). During the war years made 186 sorties.
Kosmodemyanskaya Zoya (Tanya) (13/09/1923 – 11/29/1941), the Soviet partisan, the heroine of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.
Born in a family servant. Member of the Komsomol in 1938. Studied at the 201-th secondary school in Moscow. In October 1941, being a student of grade 10, a volunteer went to the partisan detachment.
In the village Obukhovo near Naro-Fominsk, with a group of Young Communists – the guerrillas crossed the front line in the occupied territory of the German occupiers.
In late November 1941 in the village Petrischeva in a combat mission was seized by the Nazis. Despite the horrific torture and abuse executioners did not betray his comrades, had not opened his real name, who called Tanya.
November 29, 1941 was executed.
February 16, 1942 Kosmodemyans'koi posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Polynin Fedor Petrovich (10/20/1906 – 11/21/1981) – Pilot bomber, Hero of the Soviet Union (1938), Colonel-General. In aviation from 1929 in 1937-1938 fought in China and commanded air group. Member of the Soviet-Finnish war. In WWII with the August 1941 commanded the Air Force of the Bryansk Front, 2 and 6 VA. In the 1944-1947 military commander of the Polish Army. After returning to the Soviet Union was the chief of Air Force logistics.
November 14, 2002 marks 85 years since the birth of Lieutenant-General Kerim Kerimov. Kerim Kerimov – Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of Stalin, Lenin and State prizes, Lieutenant General, retired. Almost 25 years he presided over the State Commission on manned space flight program. KA Kerimov was born in Baku in a family of Azeri intellectuals – his father was a graduate of Petersburg Polytechnic Institute and worked as an engineer in Azneft, and his mother – Surah Kerimov (Akhmedov) Graduated high school in Baku. At the end of the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute, as it had at the beginning of World War II, Kerimov enlisted in the Artillery Academy, which was evacuated to Samarkand. In autumn 1943, he defended his diploma on the theme: "A shop for production of mortar and was sent to serve in the state acceptance of the Main Control Arms, where the factories of Moscow bush engaged reception at industry Guards mortar units such as Katyusha rockets and shells.
Georgi Stepanovich Shonin (03/08/1935), Soviet cosmonaut, Major General Aviation (1977), Hero of the Soviet Union (the 22/10/1969). Member of the CPSU from 1957. In 1957 he graduated from Yeisk Military Aviation School (now Yeisk Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots them. B. M. Komarov), and then served in naval aviation. Since 1960, an astronaut. In 1968 he graduated from the Air Force Engineering Academy. HE Zhukovsky. 11 – 16 October 1969 flew into space aboard the spacecraft "Soyuz-6" as the commander of the vessel (jointly with W. H. Kubasov).
Aksenov, Vladimir (01/02/1935). Born February 1, 1935 in the village Giblitsy Kasimov district of Ryazan region. Early years came in during the Great Patriotic War in 1941 – 1945. He led them from their elderly parents mother: Ivana Prokofievich and Vera Feodorovna Aksenov – Teachers of Russian Language and Literature. They instilled Volodya love literature, music. After the war he lived in the village Giblitsy, where his mother worked as a bookkeeper rural cooperatives.
In 1949 he graduated in the village of seven classes and enrolled in an industrial college in Kasimov. But soon the mother died and the boy took to his sister, mother, Zinaida Ivanovna Semakin, worked as a teacher in the suburban city of Kaliningrad (now Korolev).
Alexei Leonov Arkhipovich (05/30/1934) was born May 30, 1934 in the village Listvyanka Tisulskogo region of Kemerovo region in the family miner. Ibid spent his childhood years. After the Great Patriotic War, the family moved to Kaliningrad (former Koenigsberg).
In 1953 he graduated from high school and enrolled in Chuguyivske Military Aviation School. After graduation he served in the aviation wing of the Air Forces of the USSR.
Patsayev Viktor Ivanovich (06.19.1933 – 30.06.1971), pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union (30/6/1971, posthumously). A member of the Communist Party since 1968. After graduating in 1955, Penza industrial (now Polytechnic) Institute worked in Central upper-air observatory, and various size. From 1969 to an astronaut. As a test engineer entered (with G. T. Dobrovolsky and Volkov, VN) to the crew of the Soyuz-11 spacecraft, launched on Sputnik June 6, 1971. June 7, 1971 Soyuz-11 spacecraft docked with the made in Earth orbit since April 19, 1971 scientific.
Lazarev, Vasily Grigorievich (23.02.1928 – 31.12.1990) was born February 23, 1928 in the village Poroshina Kytmanovskogo district of the Altai Territory in a peasant family. School years spent in Sverdlovsk (now – Ekaterinburg). From childhood dream of heaven.
In 1943, after graduating from an eight-year, along with his friend tried to go to school initial training of pilots. But others are not enrolled, Basil does not have a friend and both returned to school. In 1945 he graduated from school and enrolled in the Sverdlovsk medical institute. In his last year received a proposal to specialize in aviation medicine. The offer seemed tempting. And Basil went to the military medical faculty of Saratov Medical Institute.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (3/6/1937) – The world's first woman astronaut. Born in the village Maslennikovo Tutayev district of the Yaroslavl region in the family farmers. His father worked as a tractor driver and his mother was the household, worked on the farm. During the Great Patriotic War, his father was killed at the front, and a mother with three children moved to the city of Yaroslavl. There little Valya went to school. She graduated from school seven years, and then night school for working youth. At the end of June 1954 came to work at the Yaroslavl Tire Plant in the assembly shop cutter.
