Valery Fedorovich Bykovsky. Cosmonaut. Work, perseverance and luck

The attitude towards the past of our country varies from person to person. But no matter how the opinions differ, the fact that the Soviet Union has cultivated strong, talented, remarkable people, heroes of not only their time is an indisputable fact. Our country was the first to seriously study the direct study of outer space. Cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, whose biography is a continuous list of awards and achievements, a vivid representative of the Russian cohort of great people.

Today Valery Fedorovich is eighty, he is cheerful and friendly. With a smile and barely noticeable notes of sadness, she shares her experiences, knowledge and achievements with her followers.

Childhood

August 2, 1934 in the family Bykovsky was born a child who was destined to become a famous cosmonaut. The family of the newborn at that time lived in Pavlovsky Posad. Father, Fedor Fedorovich - a former KGB officer, an employee of the Ministry of Railways. And her mother, Claudia Ivanovna, devoted all her time to family and home.

Valery Fedorovich is not the only child in the family, he has an older sister Margarita Fedorovna (in the marriage of Mikheyev).

Bykov Bykovsky had to change two schools. First he attended school at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, and from the seventh grade he studied in Moscow.

From the very childhood Valery Bykovsky raved about the stars and the sky. The astronaut began his star career with the fact that he was still a young man enrolled in the Moscow Aeroclub. Then he successfully graduated from the aviation school in the Penza region. He was then 19 years old.

Education and first experience

Bykovsky-cosmonaut started his way from the aeroclub or "prerogative", even before graduation. Exhausting training in any weather, the first flying experience and the adoption of the most important decision in life - that's what the Moscow aero club gave him. Characteristic Valery Fedorovich contained the most flattering reviews. Instructors also believed that this uchlet fly to love, does it boldly and confidently, learns science with enthusiasm and takes initiative. Leaving his first flight school, Bykovsky (astronaut in the near future) firmly decided to enter the school of fighter pilots.

The study at the Kachin Military Aviation School, naturally, was more complicated and serious. Practical classes were held at a fast pace, but Valery Fyodorovich had time, he liked and very well studied. In all the characteristics of Bykovsky only positive responses: hardy, well-oriented, initiative. All assessments for theory and practice are "excellent."

Service

Thanks to persistence and diligence, Bykovsky and in part quickly achieved success. Quite quickly, the senior lieutenant was transferred to a squadron of interceptors. Valery Fyodorovich recalls how the assignments, air attacks, combat alarms passed and notes how important it is to feel the people who are next to you, trust them. When in part he flew on the MIG, he was 100 percent sure of the plane, thanks to the efforts of his technician Konkov.

Many years of experience and good comrades acquired in the years of service the future cosmonaut Bykovsky. His biography will be replenished with increasingly bright and significant achievements for the whole country. Valery Fedorovich from the very childhood was engaged in sports: football, athletics, fencing. No less a sport carried away his books. Valery Fyodorovich perceived vocational education and self-education as one of the most important components in life, that is why he gladly comprehended various fields of knowledge. And in the Soviet Army in a circle of like-minded people, young, active, and purposeful pilots, he continued to engage in sports and self-improvement.

Unearthly Testing

Every Soviet boy dreamed of becoming a hero, serving the good of the Motherland, conquering the peaks and exploring the unknown, with no exception, and Bykovsky. A cosmonaut in the shower and a pilot in life, he decides to try his hand and goes on a train to a dream.

The first test, which faced Valery Fedorovich - medical commission. It is worth noting that the doctors conducting the selection and giving the admission to the flights are very attentive, strict and hypochondriac. If there is even the slightest deviation from the necessary parameters, there will be no access to flights. The medical commission, pilots, and even more astronauts, go through regularly. The excitement and tension in the doctors' offices is growing. How many guys parted there with their dream! But Bykovsky passed the first stage with ease, only with wishes of success and approving smiles of doctors.

The second stage is the simulation of possible situations in space. To do this, it was necessary to pass tests on various simulators, installations, in a pressure chamber. It was impossible to falsify and deceive nature and doctors. Only the strongest, hardy and healthy were selected. This was Bykovsky. But this was only the beginning of a difficult journey.

Family of astronauts in Star City

In the Star City, the cosmonauts' regime is strict: sports, workloads, classes, simulators, medical examinations. The new team was very friendly, hardworking and purposeful. Comrades elected Bykovsky as deputy secretary of the Komsomol committee. Care for Valery Fedorovich significantly increased, but it made his life even more interesting and rich. Many years ago Bykovsky bought many friends and good friends. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and other equally well-known personalities trained together with him in Zvezdnoye.

One of the most difficult simulators for all future cosmonauts is a centrifuge. Her overload experienced the human body, and Bykovsky showed remarkable results on it. He quickly learned the lessons and advice of coaches, doctors, so he achieved significant success.

One of the most interesting activities, perhaps, was a stay in weightlessness. And the most unusual, as Valery Bykovsky (the cosmonaut) thought, was to develop the habit of being alone. In the chamber of a chamber with a size of one and a half square meters, where, apart from appliances and armchairs, there were only food and books, he had to experience what is waiting for him in space. He worked, sang, declared verses, read books, built tables. For more than three days, his first pre-space loneliness lasted. Bykovsky was the first to visit the chamber.

Flying

Valery Fedorovich made his first appearance in space on the Vostok-5. Almost five days spent commander Bykovsky in space in 1963. The second flight, on the ship Soyuz-21 in 1976, where he was also commander, took even more time - 189 hours. The third flight, on the Soyuz-31 ship in 1978, was the same in duration.

20 days 17 hours in the total amount for three flights was not on the planet Earth Cosmonaut Bykovsky. Photos of Valery Fedorovich were adorned with all newspapers, Honorary Boards of the Soviet Union. Every boy dreamed of being like him. And he still does not tire of repeating the words of his father: "Labor is the pivot on which everything is held in man."