Korolev Biography Wikipedia

Korolev was a god for us.

Now, after death, his name is often mentioned in the Soviet press, surrounded by a romantic halo. Then I met Korolev several times. He undoubtedly was not only a wonderful engineer and organizer, but also a bright person. There was a lot in it in common with Kurchatov. Kurchatov had a very important feature of great science. Tsiolkovsky was not for him, I think, a dreamer, as for some.

Like Kurchatov, he had rude humor, care for subordinates and work comrades, a huge practical grip, maybe a little more cunning, stiffness and everyday cynicism. Excursions to the queen were repeated several times. In the city of Sergei Pavlovich showed us the same, underwent last checks, joked, but it was felt that he was in a state of great internal excitement. I hid in my pocket a melted piece of metal, found at the site of the rocket fall there, so there were thousands of them, so I did not rob anyone.

My last meeting with Sergei Pavlovich took place at the general meeting of the Academy, shortly before his death. Korolev died on the operating table, a few weeks after our conversation. Korolev, I think, never forgot about his camp past. In some other cases, his efforts were more effective before leaving for the airfield to meet new heroes of the cosmos, a group of chief designers and leaders of the Korolev, Keldysh, Tulin, Rudenko, Pilyugin, Barmin, Kerimov and others gathered in the “Marshal” dining room of the tenth site.

Korolev proclaimed a toast for cooperation: “Friends! Let's work together for the sake of the great goal of mastering the moon. Remember how our team worked together? Vladimir Pavlovich is right: the former friendship between members of the “cosmic cooperation” has long been gone, and this has a share of guilt and Korolev himself. He often makes reckless decisions and is a despotic in relationships with his assistants.

Not without reason, local wits nicknamed him “Scorpio-4”. The fact is that if the threat of Baikonurus from foreign agents arises, the General Staff immediately notifies the relevant services of the landfill with encoded signals. According to any of these signals, life on Baikonur freezes for several minutes ... Korolev learned about Scorpio-4 three days ago and at the most inopportune moment.

It remained about two hours before the launch of Voskhod-2, the preparation of the rocket, the ship and the crew went strictly on the schedule, the situation at the start was calm. Perhaps that is why the pre -trial minutes seemed especially long to us. In order to somehow pass the time in anticipation of the start-up, Korolev, Barmin, Severin and I decided to discuss our plans for the future.

The starting business conversation was held in a laid -back manner and only occasionally interrupted by small pauses. And in one of these pauses of Severin, suddenly turning to Barmin with the question: “Do you know, as Sergey Pavlovich is called at the training ground? He broke out, he said in a broken voice: “I have never been a fascist scorpion! Most of all, of course, was experienced by G.

Severin, who inadvertently offended his older friend. Korolev belongs to Gai Ilyich with paternal kindness, highly appreciates his engineering talent and has great hopes for him. Needless to say, Severin joked very unsuccessfully then ... [6] - Nikolai Kamanin, “his name should be ahead of up to a year there was our glider, and in fact the forerunner of the cosmodrome, but then no one knew about it yet.

Sergei Korolev writes in one of his Crimean letters: “Isn't it the greatest satisfaction to fly in his own car?! For the sake of this, you can forget everything and the whole string of sleepless nights, days spent in hard work without rest, without a break. A noisy dinner and, more or rather, our group is not tired, we go to the Pavlov dance and listen to music ... However, when the lunar nights came, it is very difficult to sit in the room, even to the music.

It is better to go to the sea and, climbing sharp stones, listen to the rumble of the sea. ”