future cosmonaut Gherman Titov was born in September 1935 in a small village of the Altai Territory, the son of a teacher of a local school.In 1953, the young man graduated from high school, and two years later - the Military Aviation School of the preliminary pilot training in one of the towns of the Kazakh SSR.After graduating from a specialized school he manages to enter the Aeronautical Military School Stalingrad.This guy graduated from high school in 1957.Here he gets a cherished qualified military pilot.After graduation, the future Soviet cosmonaut Titov sent for distribution to military service in the aviation part of the Leningrad Military District.In Leningrad, he served in fighter aviation regiment.Actually, here it begins a brilliant biography of flight cosmonaut Gherman Stepanovich Titov.Here, he has made more than eight flights on planes a wide variety of designs, including the new items were at the time - planes with jet engines.This experience and a good track record in no small measure contributed to the fact that the young pilot in 1960 was included in the first set of the Soviet cosmonauts.January 25, 1961 he was officially appointed to the post that existed in the Soviet Union.Cosmonaut Titov was originally considered a backup of Yuri Gagarin, who was lucky enough to be the first chosen of the space race.As you know, the first man to be in space April 12, 1961.After the first successful attempt of the Soviet space program did not pull a second launch, and German Titov, cosmonaut number two in the world history, was sent into space on Aug. 6, 1961.If the honor of Gagarin the first man, was outside the Earth's atmosphere, the German Stepanovich made the first in human history a long space flight.He stayed in orbit for more than 25 hours and made about 17 turns on the unit "Vostok-2".All the radio stations of the world reported the second man to be in space!
mature years, Herman Stepanovich
After this biography of the famous flight of the second cosmonaut for many years been associated with aviation and space flight.Already in September 1961, cosmonaut Titov was sent to study at the Air Force Academy named after Zhukovsky to acquire specialty aerospace engineers and training.Also in September 1961 he was appointed instructor astronaut for subsequent sets of applicants into orbit.In 1968 he graduated from the academy and becomes senior instructor and parallel to the second commander of the cosmonaut corps.Four years later, German Titov became deputy head of the department of research and development work.
In this position he is engaged from designing residential and social areas spaceports and spacecraft themselves.Among other things, Titov participates in the development of reusable spacecraft.In 1976, German Stepanovich holds the position in the state structure of the Ministry of Defense, which leaves only the collapse of the country in 1991.Like many well-known figures of the Soviet country, German Titov in the mid-nineties, it is sent to the policy, as in 1995 he was elected to the State Duma as an independent candidate.For a time he worked in the Committee on Transport, construction and industry.Since 1999, the former astronaut becomes president of the Federation of Cosmonautics.Even last years of life spent tireless person in active service his country.German Stepanovich Titov died in September 2000 from a heart attack.
