Did not say "let's go!"

The father of the Russian cosmonautics Academician Sergei Korolev defined this place in the south of the Amur region as the most suitable for launching missiles. During the arms race, a military town of Svobodnaya-18 ("Closed Administrative-Territorial Education Uglegorsk") was built here, in which the 27th Red Banner Far Eastern division of the strategic missile forces was based. The 60 intercontinental missiles of the RS-10 with nuclear warheads were ready to turn into a nuclear ash the Pacific coast of the consumer country.

After the collapse of the USSR, already in Russia, in these parts for a short time, a free spacecraft acted, from which five launches of Start-1 solid fuel missiles were made from mobile launch sites. The secret decree on the creation of the National Civil End Cosmodrome Vostochny was signed by Russian President V. Putin in November 2007. The construction began in 2010, the launch of the first rocket was outlined by November 30, 2015.

When discussing the construction of a new cosmodrome, local "green" expressed fears about the probability of using the Proton-M missiles on superxic heptyl fuel. Which, in their opinion, threatened the ecology of the region by pollution due to possible emergency situations at the cosmodrome. State ecologists reassured the population with a “reinforced concrete” argument: “From the training launches of the RS-10 heptil missiles, which you did not know about, there were no harm to nature and people.” But the frightened population did not believe in the sincerity of officials from the space, and in the Amur Region, due to the fear of the Cosmodrome, there was a tendency to outflow of residents in other regions and lands.

The Russian authorities listened to the opinion of the Far East, and maybe looked in the prospect of the space industry. One way or another, but it was stated that at the East Cosmodrome, new generation launch vehicles will be used, with kerosene engines. The ecologically clean Soyuz-2 missile was soon created. The use of kerosene in missile engines will certainly reduce the harmful effects of launches on the health of the personnel of the Cosmodrome and residents of the adjacent territory almost to zero. But not to the same extent as it was tried to inspire pro -government newspapers, one of which even printed a note under the heading of the “cosmodrome is good for health” with a key phrase: “By the degree of harm, the cosmodrome can compete with a grandmother's kerosene lamp”. Somehow it was lost sight that several tons of heptil, as before, would be used in the engines of the Volga acceleration unit.

The acceleration unit is designed to maneuver and adjust the spacecraft in orbit. Ecologists of Roscosmos say that the burning of heptil outside the earth's atmosphere is completely safe, and in this they are right. But who can absolutely exclude the possibility of heptil strait on the ground before the rocket entered into space?

The likelihood of technical failures leading to accidents in astronautics is the sacrificial tribute of mankind for the development of space. With Russian sloppiness, the probability of space accidents caused by the human factor increases. A good example of this is the fall of the Proton-M launch vehicle at the Baikonur Cosmodrome July 2, 2013. The conclusion of the State Commission that investigated the cause of this accident says that "three angular velocity sensors were installed so that the top was perceived as a bottom and vice versa. It was the teams from these sensors stubbornly deployed the launch of the head to the ground." She collapsed Ozem, barely taking off. The design of the sensors does not allow you to install them incorrectly. In engineering practice, this is called FoolProof ("Protection from the fool"). For example, the SIM card cannot be inserted into the slot incorrectly due to the cut corner. But the installer with the intelligence of the woodpecker, when the sensors did not enter the connectors freely, took it and drove them there with a hammer.

Who is busy with the construction of the eastern? According to local police officers, "almost a third of the workers are migrants who came to a construction site for a long ruble, and former convicts who have nowhere to go." In 2014 alone , the police detained 192 suspects of committing crimes at the "construction of the century" . Here are a few messages from the construction of East.

A shift officer from the cosmodrome, heading to work, was detained by the transport police with 169 grams of hash oil.

Employees of the drug control detained a concrete carpenter who arrived at the cosmodrome, with 50 one-time doses of heroin, at the same time he himself was in a state of drug intoxication.

The workers of the cosmodrome, about a hundred, celebrated the wedding of their colleagues. The young went out into the street to smoke, quarreled with the commandant of the hostel, and the husband who came to the rescue scored him to death. This is the third murder on a booze at the cosmodrome in a year.

They stole at the cosmodrome - everyone is to the best of their strength and capabilities. The migrant workers dragged everything that lies badly from the construction site and each other: bags with putty and cement, nails, computers, mobile phones. Once, a truck was hijacked from the construction, they threw 5 tons of steel reinforcement into it and taken out to the city free to hand over to the scrap metal reception.

Dear Putin V.V.! We want to work. 4 months without a salary. Save the workers!

The Pacific Most -Building Company Means released on the construction of the facilities of the Cosmodrome spent on the purchase of expensive yachts, the construction of a recreation center on Lake Khanka, the purchase of apartments and the construction of a three -story mansion for its former leader Viktor Grebnev. Grebnev, according to investigators, holding the position of general director of TMK CJSC, damaged the enterprise with more than 411 million rubles.

The builders brought to despair, the Pacific Motor -Building Company held a rally in the city of Ussuriysk, demanding repayment of a salary debt in four months, and at the cosmodrome they wrote with white paint on the roofs of their time: "Dear Putin V.V.! We want to work. 4 months without a salary. Save workers." Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, threatened the embezzlers: "I will tear off the head to those who steal at least the ruble at the Eastern Cosmodrome. Those who steal will sit, I promise."

Structions due to delays in salaries in the companies-contractors of the Russian special construction of Russia are one of the reasons for the lag behind the construction schedule of the cosmodrome, along with the delays in design estimates and the lack of labor. On the facts of theft during construction , 20 criminal cases have been instituted . The head of the Accounts Chamber, Tatyana Golikova, said that, according to her assessment, the cost of building the Eastern infrastructure was overpriced by more than 13 billion rubles. Materials were transferred to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

And then a visit to the cosmodrome of the Eastern President of Russia Vladimir Putin took place, during which it was expected, it will become clear whether the first launch would take place, as planned, at the end of November 2015. Here is a quote from the interfax message :

“Turn down to the first launches in 2016, in the spring, if you do it by the Cosmonautics Day, then it’s good. If not, then the assault is not needed,” Putin said at a meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome. The Russian leader emphasized that "cosmic activity is not the area where navigator and super -luster are needed, rhythmic work and quality are needed here." At the same time, the head of state asked the deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin to name the terms of launch next year. “We will do by mid -April,” Rogozin said. At the same time, the President of the Russian Federation called it it is not necessary to strive to be in time for this time. "

Now it will be appropriate to recall the most tragic day of Soviet cosmonautics - October 24, 1960, when the largest disaster occurred at the Baikonur cosmodrome. Due to the fear of liability for the disruption of the start of the first Soviet range of the long-range radius, the R-16 actions were in a hurry: about a hundred people burned alive in the heptil flame. It was like that. The Chairman of the State Commission for Testing of the Rocket, Marshal of Artillery Mitrofan Nedelin ordered the elimination of the malfunction discovered before the launch. Random inclusion on the ground of a marching engine led to an explosion of a rocket with full fuel tanks. At the same time, Marshal Nedelin himself, realizing that he was grossly violating the safety instructions, remained on the launch pad along with the service personnel of the cosmodrome.

That's what the Kholu desire resulted in the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee on the eve of the next anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

Evgeny Goncharov - Annunciation writer