Biography of German Titov Cosmonaut

Born on September 11 in the village of Verkh-Zhilino, the West Siberian Territory-died on September 20 in Moscow. Soviet cosmonaut pilot. The first person who made a long space flight. The youngest man in history, who made an orbital space flight. Doctor of Military Sciences. The Hero of the Soviet Union by nationality is Russian. Father - Stepan Pavlovich Titov, worked as a teacher of Russian language and literature.

Veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Mother - Alexandra Mikhailovna Titova nearest Nosova; , was a housewife. He had the younger sister of Zemfira Rod. She worked in the pharmacy department of the Moscow region. Names were given by the father - in honor of the heroes of the works of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. During the war, Herman and his mother and sister lived in a May Morning Morning with his grandparents.

There he went to first grade. Later they lived in the village of Polkovnikovo, where his father taught, and later - in the village of Nalobikha, in which Titov graduated from school. In school years, he was fond of technology. He mastered the design of the film projector, collected radios and could even fix the car. Herman Titov in childhood since the summer of the year Titov was in -event in the ranks of the Soviet Army.

In the year he graduated from the 9th military aviation school of pilots in Kostanay. In the year he graduated from the Stalingrad Military Aviation School of Pilots. Red Banner of the Stalingrad proletariat in Novosibirsk. Then he served in the combat units of the Air Force in the Leningrad Military District in the Mr. Aviation Regiment. The plane was mastered by Su German Titov in his youth in the cosmonauts detachment in the year German Titov was enrolled in a detachment of astronauts.

By that time, Herman Titov had about sorties on military aircraft and near parachute jumps. In total, 20 people were included in the detachment of the training of astronauts and not one of them until the very last moment knew for what purpose they were trained: they were told that to test new technology. Then it became clear that one of them would become the first astronaut.

Two were better prepared - Yuri Gagarin and German Titov. Gagarin flew, and Titov was an understudy of the first cosmonaut of the Earth. There was a version that Titova personally rejected Nikita Khrushchev personally due to the fact that he had “non -Russian”, moreover, the German name. However, in reality, the chief designer of the spacecraft and the head of preparation for the flight Sergey Korolev was made in favor of Gagarin.

In preparation for the flight into space, German Titov had a personal tragedy: his one -year -old son passed away from the defect of his heart. The flight into space in the period of August, German Titov performed the first long space flight in history lasting 1 day 1 hour on the Vostok-2 spacecraft, making 17 revolutions around the Earth, flying more than thousands of kilometers. In flight, he had a call sign "Eagle".

The descent device landed near the city of Krasny Kut in the Saratov region. The purpose of the flight was to study the influence of zero gravity on a person, behavior of the body when eating and sleeping in such conditions, as well as manual control of the device, shooting from orbit and constant radio communications with the ground. Titov himself recalled: “At about the might I felt some severity in the frontal sinuses, but I thought it was naturally I felt that when I turned my eyes, I looked left, right up to turn them, it was possible to say such a bad condition, but at the same time, it somehow oppresses somewhat.

That's it, the dreary. " Thanks to Titov’s data, the astronaut training program was significantly adjusted. The condition described by Titov was called the syndrome of cosmic adaptation or “cosmic disease”. It is experienced from a third to half of all people in space, after a day adaptation occurs and the condition is normalized. In those years, they did not know about this. It was precisely because of the described state, considered an individual reaction of the body, Titov was not later seen as a candidate for space flights.

Herman Titov was 25 years and days - he is the youngest man who made an orbital flight into space. Until July 20, he was also the youngest man who visited space, losing the championship to the summer space tourist Oliver Damen, who made a suborbital flight on the New Shepard ship. In the year he joined the CPSU. In the first years after the flight, Titov’s behavior changed markedly for the worse, he had problems with discipline and alcohol, in particular, drilling episodes in a drunk form.

Late in the evening of June 26, driving the Volga car while intoxicated at high speed, Titov allowed an obstacle to the carriageway. From the injuries, his passenger died - a random fellow traveler. The military prosecutor’s office was engaged in the investigation, which did not reveal the crime in Titov’s actions and qualified the incident as an accident.

But Titov was subjected to a strict reprimand on the party line and lowered.In the years, the organizer and head of the training of the first Soviet cosmonauts, Colonel General Nikolai Kamanin noted that over 9 years of service at the Cosmonauts training center, German Titov more than 10 times committed gross violations of discipline, including drunkenness, violations of traffic rules, conflicts with police officers.

He violated the order of the Commander -in -Chief, forbid him to drive an airplane and a car during the year. Titov repeatedly received warnings and penalties, however, the most stringent measures of influence, such as the deprivation of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, were not applied to it because of the need to maintain the prestige of the second cosmonaut in the USSR. In early May, he made a visit to the United States as part of the Soviet delegation.

He was awarded the orders of many countries of the world. In the year, Titov graduated from the N. Air Academy Academy of Medicine on the topic of the SAS of the project of a single aerospace LA, developed by a group of auditors-cosmonauts, he defended on an excellent assessment on February 17-on the same day with Gagarin. Titov was the chairman of several state commissions for the testing of missile and space systems.

He was an active ideologist for creating sea ships of the measuring complex, took a great personal part in the development of the ship of the Marshal Nedeln project. He was the deputy editor -in -chief of the journal Aviation and Cosmonautics. Voroshilova and received the degree of candidate of military sciences. He later defended his doctoral dissertation.

In October, in rank, Colonel General of Aviation resigned. From for the year - President of the Cosmoflot International Scientific and Technical Center and Electronics, from the year - Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Russian Center for Conversion of the Aerospace Complex, and from the year - President of the Cosmonautics Federation of Russia. He died on September 20 from a heart attack.

The farewell ceremony took place on September 25 in the Cultural Center the Central House of the Armed Forces of Russia named after Frunze. He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

The signature of Herman Titov is engraved on the pedestal of the monument “Glory to the conquerors of Cosmos! In the year, a monument was opened in the memorial at the site of the landing of Herman Titov in the area of ​​the village of Krasny Kut in the Saratov region. The memorial complex includes a restored building of the old Colonel Semiy School, in which the future astronaut studied and his father, as well as a new building, taught.

Initially, materials about space and first flights were placed in the small house of the Titov family. In all halls, the cosmonaut’s personal belongings, awards, the most diverse documents from the certificate of maturity to the pass to the funeral of Gagarin, the layouts of orbital stations, part of the rockets, maps, drawings, children's drawings, souvenirs, memorable gifts, photographs on Earth and in space are presented.

Titov, established on the initiative of the societies of Russian-Vietnamese and Vietnam-Russian friendship, on the island of Titov in the Bay of Halong Vietnam. Yuri Gagarin, it created the "Gallery of Cosmonauts", including the bas-relief-portrait of Hermann Titov. Titov served from for a year, a memorial plaque was installed in his honor. His name named the main testing center for testing and management of space funds; Krasnokutsk Museum of Local Lore in the city of Krasny Kut of the Saratov region near the landing site of the Vostok-2 device; Barnaul airport; Crater in the sea of ​​Moscow on the back of the moon; asteroid German; The island in the Tonksi Gulf of Halong, Vietnam, the coordinates graduated from the Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institute named after Krupskaya in the specialty History, Social Studies.

She worked as an employee of the Institute of Military History. They brought their amateur performances. Herman led concerts in the House of Culture of the village of Siversky, and Tamara sang. Two daughters were born in marriage. They also had a son, but he died of heart disease at the age of 1 year. Daughter Tatyana Rod. Daughter Galina Rod. German Titov and Tamara wife Bibliography by Herman Titov: - kilometers in space; - Seventeen space dawn;.