Is it not raining any more? it is clearing up and the sun is shining. The jazz band is playing in the park. A lot of people are listening to the music and they are really having a good time. But they are not dancing yet. There is a coffee shop there. Only seven people are sitting there, and only five people are waiting in the queue. Some people are having sandwiches and drinking coffee, tea or fruit juices. Boys and girls over there are laughing and making a lot of noise. They are playing games and Tom is taking pictures. So what is going on?
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev - the Chief Designer Сергей Павлович Королёв - Главный Конструктор.
Name: Sergey Korolyov
Date of birth: 1907, 12 January
Place of birth: in Ukraine, Zhytomyr
Early years: His mother Maria and his father Pavel separated due to financial difficulties. Although Pavel later wrote to Maria requesting a meeting with his son, Sergei was informed by his mother that his father had died. Sergei never saw his father after the family break-up, and Pavel died in 1929 before his son learned the truth. Korolev grew up under the care of his grandparents. He received vocational training in carpentry and in various academics at the Odessa Building Trades School. In 1923 he joined the Society of Aviation and Aerial Navigation of Ukraine and the Crimea Then he graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, and later the Bauman Moscow Higner Technical School and the Moscow Pilot School.
Later years: After graduation, Korolev worked with some of the best Soviet designers. He was a talanted engineer. Soon he got interested in cosmonautics. He devoted all his life to designing of rockets and space systems which ensured success in the initial stages of investigation of outer space.
Famous for: contruction, testing and lauching of the Vostok, Voskhod, and Soyuz spacecraft;
The jazz band is playing in the park. A lot of people are listening to the music and they are really having a good time. But they are not dancing yet.
There is a coffee shop there. Only seven people are sitting there, and only five people are waiting in the queue. Some people are having sandwiches and drinking coffee, tea or fruit juices. Boys and girls over there are laughing and making a lot of noise. They are playing games and Tom is taking pictures. So what is going on?