Ruslan Komaev Vladimirovich Biography

Society on November 24 of the year in the film "Man from the Earth" was shown in Smolensk this fall as part of the Festival of Documentary Cinema of the CIS countries "Eurasia. And his hero even became the main surprise of the opening ceremony. Ruslan Komaev is a designer who worked on the world's first lunar drive, an automatic interplanetary station “Vega-1”, which investigated the Galley comet, and the devices that landed on Venus and Mars ...

The lunar rover for schoolchildren is Ruslan Vladimirovich, in the annotation for the film “Man from the Earth”, it is said about you in Ossetia as a specialist in the republic in the cosmonautics ... - Only recently found out. In the year I had an anniversary, and the head of the republic, Vyacheslav Bitarov, awarded me the medal "For the Glory of Ossetia." They called me, asked me to come, and I could not refuse.

Before that, I rarely visited my homeland, because we did not go on vacation in the Lavochkin NPO and on weekends also often worked. And then he flew in, looked at how people live, saw that almost no one was engaged in children, and invited the head of the republic to do something for them. For example, to open quantoriums is, in fact, what was previously called the stations of young technicians.

Because children need to be captivated by something, tore off the gadgets, because of which they no longer see anything around. And they created their cosmonautics school in Vladikavkaz ... - Yes, a year ago we opened a large complex in the building of the former Shiite mosque - the architectural monument of the year. It includes a planetarium, a layout of a solar system, two telescopes with a thousand -line increase, working sunshine and an astronautics school, where there is an audience for theoretical classes and cabin of a spaceship with a layout of a control panel for practice.

And children can use all this for free - this was my main condition. I thought something like this in Khimki. There was an idea to create a youth exhibition center with the current models of space technology that could be “destroyed”. Moreover, I myself have gathered the layouts of all our historical aircraft and the American Apollo on one scale one to one. In order for the guys to have the opportunity to sit in the cabin of the legendary Gagarinsky ship Vostok, to build a program of the Lunopoline route on the computer, take the sample of the “Martian” soil with manipulators ...

In general, that which failed in Khimki managed to implement in Vladikavkaz. And for the sake of this, I left Moscow, selling an apartment there, and returned to Ossetia to engage in the cosmonautics school. Now I work with teachers, I am recruiting a team. In addition, the guys simply come to introductory excursions - we tell them about the history of space development, show films.

And the children do not want to leave - for me this is a great joy! I really want to light our younger generation with space, which we ourselves once really burned. The time of disinterested - it seems to me that your time was generally a time of romantics who set high goals ... - Of course. Now everything is smaller, unfortunately. It seemed to me that the new generation would be different.

Moreover, modern computers give more opportunities. But the current youth drives not at all what we. We had a desire to do something for the country-and for us these are not just high words. At the same time, we did not think about any material benefits, did not count on rewards. Selflessness is probably the main word that distinguishes our generation from the current one. After all, we could not even boast of our achievements.

Our device sat on Venus, worked in hell in hell - all news ribbons literally shouted about this. And I could not even say to loved ones that I had an attitude to this. And many in our industry did not survive until the time when their names became called, mentioning achievements and developments. People who invented unique drones passed away, not known to anyone. In the filming of the film, I agreed to participate in order to talk about them, about how space was mastered.

We did a lot the first in the world. Our spacecraft was the first to get on Mars. For the first time with its help, shooting the surface of Venus was performed - and there were a lot of such facts in the history of NPO n), where I worked for 46 years. True, I could not find out if there was his bust in Smolensk. And in general, all the traditions, the culture of the relationship that has developed in our production, is everything from Semyon Alekseevich.

He was an intelligent man. Imagine that the highest degree of his anger-when he, angry at someone, said: “I swear at you! For all the time I did not hear a single grandmother from my colleagues. Mat was simply unacceptable for us. When the adjacent people came, they had to make comments, explain that it was not customary for us to communicate like that. That was the level of culture the highest!

I was part of a huge team, with which we managed to achieve outstanding achievements in the astronautics. We launched spacecraft. At the same time, in order to rise at least one, you need to test three on Earth.In general, this is easily pronounced in words: the first in the world, for the first time in history ... But this huge work is a process in which hundreds of thousands of people are involved, and they must be organized.

And not everything turned out smoothly - there were failures. And you imagine what it feels like when the apparatus that you worked on for a long time suddenly explodes at the final stage of testing?! What a constant huge tension! Therefore, the same Georgy Nikolaevich Babakin did not even live up to sixty years - he simply burned down in production. For five years that he was the chief designer of the association, they held 30 launches, and that’s the first time in the world.

And who now knows about him? Or Alexei Panteleimonovich Milovanov, who controlled NPO NPO n) and besides what he was engaged in cosmos, did a lot of Khimki for the inhabitants. And when we buried him, he did not even find a place on the central alley of the cemetery-only somewhere in the corner. These are people to whom I am infinitely grateful, and, of course, I am insulting for them.

They, one might say, raised me - a boy from a distant mountain village. After all, my mother was at all illiterate, she did not even speak Russian. There were five children in the family, and we practically did not see our parents - they worked from morning to night. So we ourselves were brought up. I think you understand how much a long and difficult path is: from a rural boy to the deputy general director of NPO nPO Lavochkin.

To spend any online bosses? Of course, you can also provide open lessons online. Moreover, other regions have interest in our school. I have already been called from Murmansk, Kazan ... So we will definitely establish connections. And with the homeland of Gagarin - first of all ... For reference, Ruslan Komaev is a designer of space aircraft, the laureate of the USSR State Prize, Honored Machine Builder of the Russian Federation.

He graduated from the legs of a secondary school with a gold medal. In the year he entered the Metallurgical Department of the North Caucasus Mining and Metallurgical Institute. Four years later, he transferred to the Moscow Aviation Institute to the faculty of space aircraft. Lavochkina, where he worked for more than 45 years, having traveled from the master to the first deputy general director.

During the work in the NGO, he managed the manufacture, assembly and testing of more spacecraft from which were launched. He headed the work on the creation of the Frigate acceleration unit and the spectr-r space radio telescope. He participated in the implementation of the reusable space system "Buran". He restored the spacecraft constituting the history of the Soviet cosmonautics: “Lunopolk-3”, “Luna-4”, “Venus-7”, “Astron”, “Granat”, “Vega-1”, “Venus”, “Fobos”, “Luno Road-2”.

At his own expense he created and experienced the current marking layout. He created the full -sized layouts of the Vostok spacecraft, flying space chair and the Soyuz spacecraft, as well as models of the American manned space program Apollo. By the flight of the flight, Yuri Gagarin made the current Lunopolk-1 layout with a control panel.