, they took us into the army, that’s how i ended up in the pacific fleet, served in... naval aviationn vietnam, i was drawn to civil aviation, i was vacation when i flew to rostov in this short period of time, while in rostov there for two weeks i met my future wife, i was not yet 16 years old, so they started dating and decided to marry, konstantin waited until i turned 18 years old. as soon as i turned 18 years old, we got married, and that’s how our story of life together began, i began my work at the rostov helicopter production association in transport squadrons, our whole family worked at the helicopter factory, me too worked at a helicopter factory. for a year i already flew practically throughout the soviet union, every day i had new directions, it was hard, yes, because there you need to be not only an iceman, you also need to be a flight operator, and a loader, in terms of mechanical engineering, and change wheels, all this it was, but difficult times came for our entire country, gorbachev began, of course, then yeltsin. our country began to be destroyed, yes, all enterprise