kachinskoe and continued to serve first in krasnodar, then borisoglebsk for a very long time in the budenovsky assault regiment, so from the position of deputy squadron commander i went to the gagarin academy, which is located here in the moscow region and calmly studied and advanced my skills. military professional level, the air force academy is famous, and before graduation in the spring , representatives of the cosmonaut training center came to us, they assembled the entire flight crew , they said that this year they are recruiting for the cosmonaut corps, and you were already in some military rank, but not knowledgeable, well, well, no, it was enough, maybe it was a little early after all, yes , i was, in my opinion, 32-33 years old and it was a good age to continue a military career, that’s when they offered me. wishing listeners to be selected for the cosmonaut corps, i naturally agreed, wrote a report for the passage, for some reason i thought that naturally i could not place myself next to such great people as gagarin, leonov, titov, bolynov, what a year it was, it was 2006, but hon