Andrian Nikolayev - cosmonaut: biography of the Hero of the USSR

In 1962, the first space flight was made, in which a man was without a spacesuit. This brave man was Andrian Nikolayev. The cosmonaut was the first to take off his space suit, get rid of the chair and soared in weightlessness in the cabin of the ship. The rest of the crew followed him. But this was the first flight, in which Andrian Nikolayev took part . The astronaut, whose biography includes only two trips to outer space, has become a real national hero! About what his life was like, read in the article.

Andrian Nikolayev: biography of the hero - childhood

The future cosmonaut was born to a poor family in 1929 on September 5 in the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (now the Chuvash Republic), in the village of Shorshely.

The parents of the future Hero of the Soviet Union were simple peasants: father - Grigory Nikolayevich Nikolaev - groom, mother - Alexeyeva-Nikolaeva Anna Alekseevna - milkmaid. Andrian had an older brother named Ivan, and the younger ones - Sister Zinaida and brother Peter.

In childhood, the boy dreamed of becoming a paramedic, but on the recommendation of his older brother entered the forestry technical school in Mariinsky Posad, which he successfully graduated in 1947.

In 1951 he entered the aviation school in Frunze, and after his graduation (1954) he served in the Moscow region in aviation military units.

Andrian Nikolayev - cosmonaut

Biography of Andrian G. as an astronaut began in the spring of 1960, when the very first detachment of Soviet cosmonauts was formed , which included him. In total, he made two flights: the first - in 1962, the second - in 1970.

During the course of preparation for space flights Nikolaev showed himself as an amazingly efficient and purposeful person. He never left the simulator until he was sure that he had done everything he could until he realized that this part of the program was 100% assimilated.

The first flight, in which Andrian Nikolayev participated

The astronaut, whose biography began with the first in the history of group space flight (the Vostok-3 and Vostok-4 ships) in 1962, was also a bold experimenter. He was the first to take off the spacesuit in the ship.

The flight lasted almost 4 days (3 days 22 hours). The ship "Vostok-3", run by Nikolaev, made 64 turns around the planet Earth. During the flight, the first experiments with radio communication in space were conducted, and a specially planned program of medical-biological and scientific-technical experiments was carried out.

The second flight (1970)

Andrian Nikolaev is an astronaut whose biography is full of many significant moments, among them the presentation of state awards, orders and medals, the discovery of an interesting effect of the impact of outer space on the human body. It was later called the "Nikolaev effect".

The fact is that the second flight, which made Andrian G. as a commander, was quite long (more than two weeks). During the entire flight, the astronauts did not perform any physical exercises, and therefore after landing they adapted for a long time to terrestrial conditions: they could not move, they felt bad. This led to the conclusion that the ship simply needed a simulator for sports lessons during long trips through space.