Unknown heroes: German Titov

Almost everyone is familiar face of the man on the right, most know uncle smiling in a hat at the center, and few people know in the face of the extreme left. And this, by the way, the owner of an unbeaten record as the youngest astronaut in history.





Not only is the person who first held in space more than a day, had lunch, dinner and even a few hours allocated for sleep. He made the first pictures of our planet from space, circled the Earth as much as 17 times! He - the Hero of the Soviet Union German Titov.



Exactly 50 years ago on a spaceship "Vostok-2" Gherman flew around the Earth more than 700 thousand kilometers, having been in space 25 hours and 11 minutes.











By the time of flight (the second in the history of mankind), Germany has been 26 years without a single month. So far, none of the astronauts did not beat the record Titov. He remains the youngest person to visit space.



Despite the fact that Gherman Titov was the backup of Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut, he conceded only age (German - behind George).



Photos of Soviet cosmonauts. Titov - always second.



Soviet cosmonauts belonged to a kind of "caste" demigods for the Soviet people. They met with the most famous people on the planet Earth, and making the rounds of kilometers with no less than did earlier in orbit.











In the dressing room Arkady Raikin.



Meeting with President Kennedy.



German Titov after the flight was educated, he studied science, and served his country as strong enough.



October 27, 1991 order of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR Gherman Titov was discharged with the rank of Colonel-General.



The hero of our story has lived a long and happy life.



He died the youngest cosmonaut October 20 2000, the year of a heart attack.



In the native Altai today is the opening of the reconstructed museum complex history of this great man.