German Titov

On September 11, 1935, German Titov, Soviet astronaut No. 2 was born

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German Stepanovich Titov (1935-2000) was born in the village of Verkhny Zhilino Kosikhinsky district of the Altai Territory in the family of teachers Stepan Pavlovich Titov. Father taught Russian language and literature, painted well, loved music, played on many musical instruments, wrote poems and songs. During the war years, Stepan Pavlovich was at the front, and his wife Alexander and her children lived with her parents in the May Morning Commune, where Herman studied from the first to the third grade. The boy graduated from the seven -year -old in Polkovnikovo, and the secondary school in the village of Nalobikha.

In July 1953 he was drafted into the army. In 1955 he graduated from the 9th military aviation school of pilots in Kustanai, and in 1957-the Stalingrad Military Aviation School in Novosibirsk, after which he served in the combat units of the Air Force in the Leningrad Military District.

In 1960, German Titov was chosen in a detachment of astronauts. He became the understudy of Yuri Gagarin and the pilot of the second spacecraft Vostok-2, launched in August 1961.

On August 6, 1961, Herman Titov made a space flight lasting 1 day 1 hour, making 17 revolutions around the Earth and flying more than 700 thousand kilometers. The descent device landed in the Saratov region near the city of Krasny Kut.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 9, 1961, for the successful implementation of space flight and the courage and heroism shown to Major Herman Stepanovich Titov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal (No. 11158).

In 1961 he joined the CPSU.

In 1968, Titov graduated from the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy. The thesis on the topic of the SAS of the project of single aerospace LA, developed by a group of auditors-cosmonauts, he defended on "excellent" on February 17-one day with Gagarin.

In July 1968, he became a senior cosmonaut instructor and accepted the command of the second detachment of astronauts. In March 1969, he headed the 4th department of the Center for the Training of Cosmonauts, who was preparing pilots for the Spiral Airlines.

In 1972 he graduated from another university - the Military Academy of the General Staff.

In 1972-73, he served as deputy head of the Center for Military Spacecraft Management of the Main Directorate of Cosmic Funds of the USSR Ministry of Defense, from 1973 to 1979-was a deputy, and from 1979 to 1991-the first deputy chief of the GUKO of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR for experimental design and scientific research. He 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 1914 Marshal Nedelin project.

January 31, 1980 defended his thesis in VAGS. K.E. Voroshilova and received the degree of candidate of military sciences. He later defended his doctoral dissertation.

In October 1991, Herman Titov went in the reserve with the rank of colonel general.

From 1992 to 1993 he was the president of the Cosmoflot International Scientific and Technical Center and Electronics, from 1993 to 1995-Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Russian Center for Conversion of the Aerospace Complex, and since 1999-President of the Cosmonautics of the Russian Federation.

He was elected as a deputy of the State Duma from the Communist Party of the First (1993) and the second (1995) convocations.

Herman Titov died on September 20, 2000 from carbon monoxide poisoning. The astronaut died in a sauna equipped in his apartment on Khovanskaya Street. He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

German Titov

What is famous

Herman Titov is the second person who flew into space and the first to spend more than a day in orbit.

He was an ondor cooperative officer No. 1, but fate was so that he went into history only the second.

At the same time, throughout the history of the piloted cosmonautics, German Titov remains the youngest man of the planet, who visited space - at the time of flight he was only 25 years old and 330 days.

What you need to know about

Herman Titov also acted as a writer. He is the author of the books “700,000 kilometers in space”, “Seventeen Space Zor” (1962), “Aviation and Cosmos” (1963), “The First Cosmonaut of the Planet” (1971), “My Blue Planet” (1972), “On Star and Earth Orbites” (1987).

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Direct speech

“Titov quickly converged with people. The comrades loved him for the versatility and brightness of nature. He loved music, literature, read the heads of Evgeny Onegin as a keepsake, well recited Mayakovsky and Lermontov, sang, painted well, had no equal in a rapid dance, on gymnastic shells and playgrounds ... Penetrable to thoughts, he surprisingly subtly felt the interlocutor, listened to someone else's opinion, but never retreated from his principles, ” - - he never retreated from his principles. From an article about Herman Titov on the website of peoples.ru .

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6 facts about Herman Titov

• Herman and his sister Zemfir named after the heroes of the works of A. S. Pushkin
• In the cosmic flight, Titov had a call sign "Eagle".
• Herman Titov was worried all his life that he did not fly into space first.
• In addition to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, German Titov was awarded two Orders of Lenin (June 17 and August 9, 1961), Orders of the October Revolution (February 21, 1985), Red Banner of Labor (January 15, 1976) and “For Merits to the Fatherland” of the III degree (September 7, 1995), as well as the Medal “For the Development of virgin lands” (August 1961).
• In addition to Soviet and Russian orders, Titov was also awarded the orders of Bulgaria, Mongolia, Indonesia, the GDR, Yugoslavia, Romania, Syria and the Congo.
• In honor of Herman Titov, a crater is named on the back of the moon, Barnaul Airport and Island in the Tonksi Gulf (Halong Bay).

Materials about Herman Titov

Titov, German Stepanovich on the site "Heroes of the country".

Biographical essay on the site Peoples.ru

Article about Herman Titov on Wikipedia