Twice Hero of the Soviet Union Malyshev Yuri Vasilyevich made his first space flight when he was thirty-nine years old. He met this age of crisis for men in the vast expanses of space - such few people have experienced on Earth.
It was only later that he received the title of Hero, he was awarded the rank of colonel and he became an astronaut of the first class, and it all began with a long-standing boyish dream.
Biography
Yuri was born in 1941 in Nikolaevsk, Volgograd region. His family was far from the idea that a future astronaut was growing in their family. Yura’s parents had quite earthly professions: father was an electrician, and mother raised children in kindergarten.
However, as a teenager, Malyshev began to dream about airplanes and that he would control a steel machine that flies high above the ground. He did not think about space at that time, because he had not had this experience all over the world.
At school, Yuri studied in Taganrog, and then went to Kachinsk, to the famous flight school, to get a pilot's education. He studied well, enthusiastically and with interest, and then transferred to the Kharkov School, where he also trained pilots.
During these years, Yuri Gagarin visited space for the first time in the history of mankind, and for all young people this was an occasion for inspiration, enthusiasm, and many had a desire to repeat his feat. Malyshev graduated from the flight school two years after this grandiose event, and also wanted to join the ranks of cosmonauts, become the same as Gagarin.
Pilot career
After graduating from college, Yuri worked as a pilot until 1967, and then he was enlisted as a student-cosmonaut at the Cosmonaut Training Center, which in the USSR was a powerful scientific and practical base for training highly qualified personnel. For two years the pilot was a student, underwent theoretical training, his physical abilities were tested. And in 1969 he could already call himself an astronaut, because he was officially appointed to the research institute of the Cosmonaut Training Center.
Further, he was waiting for preparations for the Spiral program, according to the plan of test pilots, and then preparations for a test flight into space began. In 1976, Malyshev was the understudy of the commander of the Soyuz-22. That is, it was already a real chance to fly into space if something did not work out for a real crew.
