grigorievich nikolaev and chose the school.of pilots, and i applied there, got accepted the first time, yes, wait, well, if the path to astronautics, as i understand it, always lay through aviation, well, how to say, large fighter, but you are a helicopter pilot, well, i didn’t go to helicopter school, i went to military school when i arrived in syzran and saw that instead of fighters there were helicopters flying there. naturally, i was upset at first, but now i realize that this is god’s command, i was lucky that this is a very wonderful type of aviation and i became a helicopter pilot, you have not been the eighth all your life, i conventionally say that i am a final exam at the syzarinsk higher military aviation i passed school on the mi-8, began serving in the armed forces, and flew from lieutenant to lieutenant general on the mi-8, and retired from civil aviation. i fly on the mi8, there are probably no such people, i was lucky with this helicopter, this is a unique aircraft that will certainly be included in the guinness

grigorievich nikolaev and chose a school closer to the chuvash sizran higher military aviation schoolots, and i applied there and got accepted the first time, yes, wait, but if the path to astronautics, as i understand it, always lay through aviation, well, how should i say, fighter aviation, and you are a helicopter pilot? well, i didn't get into helicopter training school, i entered the military school, when i arrived in tsyzran, i saw that instead of fighters there were helicopters flying there. naturally, i was upset at first, but now i realize that this is god’s command, i was lucky that this is a very wonderful type of aviation and i became a helicopter pilot, you have been the eighth all my life, i conventionally say that i, the final exam at the sizaron higher military i passed the aviation school on the mi-8, began serving in the armed forces and flew from lieutenant to lieutenant general on the mi-8, and retired from civil aviation, flying the mi-8. such there are probably no people. i was lucky with this helicopter, it is a unique aircraft that will certainly be included in

grigorievich nikolaev and chose a school closer to the chuvash syzran, the highest military...t been the eighth all your life, i’m conventionally saying that i passed the final exam at the syzyron higher military aviation school on the mi-8, began serving in the armed forces and from lieutenant to lieutenant general flew on the mi-8, retired from civil aviation , i fly on mi-8, such there probably aren’t any people, i’m lucky. with this helicopter, this is a unique aircraft that will certainly be included in the guinness book, and it has been flying since sixty- one, and is now the best helicopter on the globe. are you done? lieutenant, of course, so, of course, you went to the unit, how did you end up in afghanistan? my unit was located in the south of the country, in a mountainous area, and of course, one of the first aviation units that was then attracted by the border troops of the kgbsr was the southern mountain aviation unit, our commander was once the commander of this unit, where i ended up as a lieutenant, knowing the level of training, the peculiarities of flying in t

grigorievich nikolaev, and i was just a little boy, as you said, and this message struck all of us,d the boy, what will you be when you grow up, all the boys answered cosmonauts, and the path to space then lay through a flight school, usually a military school, so since childhood i dreamed of taking this path along the path. and chose a school closer to the chuvash, sizransk, the higher military aviation school of pilots, and i applied there and got in on the first try. yes, wait, if the path to astronautics, as i understand it, always lay through aviation, well, how should i say, large, fighter, and you are a helicopter pilot? i did not enter the helicopter school, i entered the military school, when i arrived in tsyzron, i saw that instead of fighters. helicopters fly there, i was naturally upset at first, but now i realize that this is god’s command, i was lucky that this is a very beautiful type of aviation and i became helicopter pilot, you have not been the eighth all your life, i conventionally say that i passed the final exam at the syzarinsk higher military aviation school