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On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned flight into space have the ability and desire to share some photos from the family album.
The fact that my small homeland - the city of Chkalovsk Nizhny Novgorod region, the former village Vasilyov settlement. It was here in 1904 was born Valery Chkalov.
And it is here, home of the famous pilot, tried to get Soviet cosmonaut, to visit the house where he lived, and visit the museum named after him. These people, since Gagarin carried Chkalov dream: to wave around the bead around the Earth. I have been to the museum RKK Energia in g.Korolёv and saw with my own eyes landers spacecraft first astronauts. This is, without exaggeration - people one of the most difficult and heroic profession.
With some of the astronauts on the nature of their work, and got to meet my family, and family albums to save photos. All original photos and the Internet are published for the first time. © TopoGRAV

1. 1968. my mother, duck Galina Fedorovna, began working as a correspondent of the regional newspaper "Banner", and his first interview, she took from AA Leonov - Soviet cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, the first astronaut to walk in space (1965, "Voskhod-2", the second member of the crew-P. Belyaev). Second star of the Hero of the Soviet Union Leonov receive in 1975 for participating in a joint project with the US "Soyuz-Apollo" when he first took place in space ships docked two different countries.
Hangar at the house-museum of Chkalov, pictured: AA Leonov in the center, my mother - the extreme right.





2. Would like to mention that the astronauts came to us not by order, but in his heart. Probably want to touch things, which earlier touched. Chkalov, touch and pat aircraft, which he experienced and which flew.

Autograph AA Leonov photos house museum.



3. Page album with photos.
Right - Photo visit to Chkalov secretary of the Komsomol Bulgaria Ivan PANEVA in 1969



4. Photo Newspapers EV Khrunova, Hero of the Soviet Union, Soviet cosmonaut in the house of Culture. Chkalov before a meeting with residents of Chkalovsk. Eugene Khrunov in 1969, together with Boris and Alexey Eliseev Volynov went into orbit aboard the "Soyuz-5" The next day, the first time in the history of space exploration was docked two ships in orbit. After docking the "Soyuz-4" and "Soyuz-5" Khrunov Alekseev and emerged into open space.



5. 1981. Chkalovsk opens monument to the great countryman.
On the podium in the first row, in the center - GM Strekalov, Hero of the Soviet Union, Soviet cosmonaut, right - Hero of the Soviet Union AV Belyakov (crew member "Chkalov Bajdukov, Belyakov," made its first flight from the USSR to the United States by plane ANT-25 over the North Pole in 1937), a woman in a white jacket - TV Fedorov, Hero of Socialist Labor, metrostroevka Moscow. Extreme left at the microphone - my future father-in-Yuri Boyarshinov while, 1st Secretary of the Communist Party.



6. Strekalov at the microphone. Gennady Mikhailovich made five space flights, 1980 .- "Soyuz-T3", 1983 .- "Soyuz-T8", 1984, Soyuz-T11 ", 1990 .-" Soyuz-TM10 "and 1995-" Union -TM21. " And would be the sixth flight in 1983, but the launch of "Soyuz T-10-1" ended in failure at the start.



7. Cut the ribbon Belyakov, right in white suit - VD Pruritus, Hero of the Soviet Union, Soviet cosmonaut. Vyacheslav Zudov, my countryman, who was born in Bor Gorky region. In the space summer in 1976, "Soyuz-23", the second member of the crew-B. Christmas



8.Ryadom the monument to the astronauts planted a fir.
This spruce Zudova.



9. ... and spruce Strekalova



10. Photos from the newly opened memorial. A small woman in the center - the wife Chkalov, Olga Erazmovna. Left tall colonel - Chkalov's son, Igor. Right - G. Strekalov



11. Group photo of guests at the monument.



12. Strekalov at the entrance to the museum Chkalov



13. Gift photo crew Soyuz-T3 to my future father in law (G. Strekalov, L. Kizim, O Makarov).



14. 1985. VD Zudov again visited our town meeting on May 9 Victory 40 years



15. Laying flowers at the monument with the names of those killed in the Great Patriotic War Chkalovtsah.



16. 1996. Visit SE Savitskaya (with flowers), twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Soviet cosmonaut, deputy DG in Chkalov during the election campaign. Petite blonde in the middle of - my mom. Svetlana Savitskaya, the first female astronaut to walk in space (1984, "Soyuz-T12»)



17. In the hangar with the aircraft. Right from the Savitskaya, a large guy - Rector of NSTU VP Kiriyenko.



18.2000 year. Visit to Chkalov VI Sevastyanov, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Soviet cosmonaut, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. At the rally, addressing the graduates from high school. Vitaly been in space twice, in 1970 "Soyuz-9" and in 1975 "Soyuz-18". Unfortunately, a year ago, April 6, 2010 it was not us.



19. At a meeting with the shipyard workers.
It may be added that in Chkalovsk visited more and Soviet cosmonaut, Hero of the USSR VN Tereshkova, and YP Artyuhin. But the photographs in the family archives with them, alas, no.

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