on a satellite with a man on board, a different person was found and the day of the flight was determined, it only remained to come up with a song, an order was received, an order was made, a landmark breakthrough of man into space was prepared, not only designers, pilots and doctors were involved in this writer vladimir voinovich composer oscar feldman actor vladimir troshin and a couple of dozen other employees of the all-union radio will easily remember the date of the premiere of this song on april 12, 1961. i believe friends caravans forward from star to star on a dusty distant path. this song was already doomed to popularity, because it was associated with the name of gagarin, a man-legend, a citizen of the world, an idol and a hero of all soviet people, he was surrounded by

popular love. and glory for me is the flight of the cosmonaut, the voice of the message has received the attention of the message. the pelvis lifted it all up. and this song was. i remember my dad took me to the planetarium, and there, in addition to the stars. we were shown a short film about how the astronauts are preparing there and this song sounded. even then i wanted to become an astronaut, and she somehow so absorbed into me filled tablets, space maps and the navigator clarifies the latest. the route, but not one planet is waiting for us, since this planet, dear by the name of the land of the predatory honor of flight, gagarin was performed not only in the planetarium or on the radio she was taught at plants and factories by amateur art groups. she was taught in schools. on the lessons. singing, she was called and

is still called by the first words tucked into the tablet and space maps. oh well, we were sick then, all these boys found out what they like, not even himself, maybe a flight. here's how you arrived. and here i meet everything. oh i'm an astronaut me on the red carpet. you tell everyone this madness and, of course, many wanted to dream of being pilots, at that time of its perception. and even the jokes were i want to be someone, everyone just talked about it, i didn’t avoid it, but i can’t seriously say so. no i won't lie, no, but i drank on the dusty paths of distant planets to drink . on our footprints on the dusty paths of distant planets, our footprints will remain. name it was not necessary to know songs about space and gagarin, but the image of gagarin was at such an unattainable height that soviet cinema could afford a light satire of this song, comrade

mitrof, gagarin sang in space. clarifies the route for the last time, let's go, guys, calm down before the start, we still have 14 minutes left, of course, gagarin did not drink this song in space. this is understandable and it is very doubtful that he even sang during the flight. although there were different tales on this topic. someone said that yuri gagarin listened and sang okudzhava's song, others heard gagarin whistling motherland hears motherland knows where her son flies in the clouds, then he sang the song lily of the valley and a minute before the start he began to hum fly and doves fly, maybe it was, but one thing is clear. yes, even if gagarin did drink,

it was extremely inconvenient for him to do this, firstly, he was sitting in a spacesuit, sitting in a chair that was specially designed for ejection. he sat a few. e, bent, bent at the knees of the legs. well, as we say with fur, that uh in the fetal position is located and does all the other starts now in such a way that a person is allowed and takes this knee position, rises a little higher, as they say in the head. this is the most convenient way for astronauts to launch in the position of a human embryo so far on april 12, 1961. these details were of no interest to anyone; the people rejoiced, everyone walked through the streets, shouted hurray and sang songs. it was such a general rejoicing when it was not necessary to take people to the streets from various organizations, to wave flags and all some kind of posters these posters all this was born. naturally. our yura was the first in space there, and on the radio was the beloved voice of vladimir troshin, whom everyone

knew from the song podmoskovye evenings. now he sang about space maps and distant planets. distant planets, cold planets, silent fields have been waiting for us for a long time. in order to appreciate and feel both that day and the song that became the unofficial anthem of the cosmonauts, one must return 5 years ago to moscow in the second half of the fifties. she still remained a city of native muscovites, but even then the concept of limiters firmly entered; visitors scurried around moscow in search of more or less tolerable work and housing in this motley crowd wandered through the capital a young carpenter from the tajik city of stalinabad. the son of a repressed journalist, a newspaper communist of tajikistan, vladimir voinovich. i came to moscow and waved here for a long time. actually, i wrote poetry. here, but no one knew me and poetry. i also had weak ones. and i tried to

print. i worked at a construction site, plotnikov went out to the editorial office in my free time. uh, went inflicted his poems are everything to me, uh, before that war i still managed to work as a shepherd. he considered himself a professional aviator as a cabinet maker, an instructor of the rural district executive committee, and even an aircraft mechanic. i studied. firstly, i flew in an aeroflob on a flame, i jumped with a parachute, and then for 4 years i worked as an aircraft mechanic, uh, in fighter aviation. so i loved aviation very much and love it now in moscow. aviators turned out to be not needed just like novice poets, finally. vladimir voinovich managed to get a job in a newspaper. moscow plumber. where did he start to write, it’s true, not achilles poetry, but some short time passed and suddenly they fired me and they say, i didn’t survive the probationary period. i was very surprised, because i knew that no one read this newspaper. ah, when i started writing, but

it turned out that, uh, the manager of the water trust asked our editor. attach your nephew's newspaper. this dismissal seems far away. the most unpleasant event in the life of vladimir voinovich for human rights activities and a satirical presentation of soviet reality in 1974 in 1980 he would be expelled from the writers' union , and in 1981 he would be deprived of soviet citizenship. only after 10 years, by decree of mikhail gorbachev, he will receive the right to live in his homeland and be a citizen of the ussr. in the meantime , satire helped the young voinovich and one scholarship. and i was already married. i already have a daughter . and in general, i'm in terrible distress and bolt that and just a piece of bread was missing. here once. i was walking with my friend a friend, a certain yan polishchuk, then a famous writer in a crocodile, is walking towards

printed it worked on the radio. he says guys. i need a young talented modest and without ambition. man for the position of junior editor do not know where to get it? i say, well, in general, i realized that you need to keep your style a little, because if i immediately rush it will look suspicious. and i have to pretend that i'm still doing him a favor, and i tell him, well, yes, in general, the humorist yan polishchuk could try to help an unemployed colleague on the radio get a job as a junior editor about such a luxurious i couldn’t even dream of a war proposal, then radio and television worked very well. yes, it was, but well, it didn’t develop as rapidly as it does now. and the meeting with the famous composer of the war

destroyed feldman’s songs sounded on the radio and at concerts, music for the most popular film of the sixties. sleepless nights. the film debut of the young yuri solomin was also written by feldman. and he knew and could sing a cheerful song with the morning. every sunday fun day songs are heard kru. gom good morning and the people live was like this wonderful transmission. good morning. by the way, i wrote the call signs of the song for this show. good morning. good morning and good day. every

sunday at 9:00 15 minutes. like it or not , this music sounded and new songs sounded. and you know , after such an hour-long broadcast. we always call each other back and said, this song is good. this song is an unsuccessful soviet song discussed on the radio, vladimir howl. i wound kilometers along the corridors of the radio committee and tried to somehow use the patronage of my friend these hiking. vladimir voinovich remembers in every detail. first we enter a huge reception room, then also a huge office, some kind of ebony furniture, a crazy chandelier, and some very large, very important one is sitting. such, his boss was called nikolai trofimovich. sizov, he showed me to stand as such an important boss, for example, as stalin. and i am really a disaster. my pants were so frayed already,

which are the only ones i have in the morning trousers bottom fringed and hung. the shabby trousers of the war went unnoticed, but his biography was quite suitable for being hired as a junior editor, and as a repressed father. the komsomol member voinovich kept silent, and to my horror he left the table, walked around 100, approached me and said, hello, he began to ask me who i was to me then one poem was printed in the newspaper for me, although it was signed by the war carpenter. here, says even in the newspaper. the truth was printed. this is very good. so the voinovich carpenter was on probationary period in the editorial office, which was responsible for the release of the good morning program, the editorial office not only prepared the broadcast, composed of already recorded songs. well, i received a task from

the management to find the authors and order them a song on a topical topic. in 1960, an order for a song was received from space. already flying artificial satellites of the earth, people talked about the politics of man. well, more like science fiction or a very distant future, only sergei pavlovich korolev, another 10-15 people in the country knew and understood. why did you receive such an order? those the most daring american designs were calculated. at best, in february of the sixty-first year. therefore, in order to insure and to be the first, sergei pavlovich worked on this date in the autumn of the sixtieth year, moreover, on october 11 , the sixtieth year, the presidium of the central committee of the cpsu adopted a resolution that indicated that the first manned flight into space was to take place in december of the sixtieth year, but you understand all these decisions. they are not only

accepted by themselves. they should be backed up by some technical developments that took place in the sixtieth year did not allow for the december of the same year, a manned flight into space. now we know that it was moved to april 61, but the song that we were the first to be ready and at any moment to sound on the radio. here is the cherished goal and to look at the native land from the outside, when the editors received an order for a space song. they immediately called the feltsman, if the call signs of the programs were his doing, then let him quickly write a new song about astronauts. i am as i remember it now. they called me from good morning and told oscar that the day after tomorrow an artificial satellite of the earth is launched into space and we would like a

song to fly into space together with this artificial satellite. can you write? i say, well , maybe i can, but no, not words. no, today no one can say for sure. was it on the radio committee? it is known that there may be a person on board this satellite, but the song had to be composed in 2 weeks and urgently recorded and recorded on the air without waiting. special following the instructions, the editor natalya sukharevich nervously lit a cigarette and began calling all the famous songwriters to the title of tolmatov batusovsky isakovsky ashanin, and says something to them, and then disappointedly hangs up. i say, e natasha what's the matter. i can see she's upset. she says yes, you know? i need a space song. i ask them to write a text. they are asking. how much time do you need for this song? i tell them 2 weeks, they hang up to insult, the poets

were not satisfied not only with the timing, the topic was alarming, it was complex and incomprehensible, the year was 1960, and in space they dreamed of knowing almost nothing and embarking on such an adventure, nobody wanted to. i have more of a chance. i say, give natasha, and i will write you. she says, did you write anything at all when this song? i say, no, i didn’t write, she was surprised, but she says, well, hold hold well, i went home and about 14 minutes later. i wrote this text. 14 is voinovich's favorite number. it fell into rhyme and became a landmark for the song. but these lines have always aroused legitimate curiosity, why 14 and

what do the astronauts do 14 minutes before launch well , of course, we do not smoke, and 14 minutes before we are sitting in the rocket , a 15-minute readiness is already announced. here we are sitting in a rocket, the control panel tied in front of you for 14 minutes, because after 15 minutes they announce a minute readiness, which means no smoking show. the song is good, but we cosmonauts have complaints, that's where they will appear at the root before the start. but we astronauts do not smoke, and here i

could not do anything. immediately, without my consent, the songs were corrected and they began to sing, now we start, which annoyed me terribly and annoy me now, when he sings, let's sing now with the start. i don't like it, because then the policemen were joking. they said come on. yes, come on, let 's go down, but no one even wanted to hear all my objections, we won't sing a colloquial word to you in a song. it didn't take root, popovich was even offended, but the astronauts continued to sing the words that voinovich wrote, most of them were unimportant, right. is this in terms of flight preparation or not? it was their first song and first means best you know its never alone. the song written later will not be able to argue with the first song and the type near moscow yesterday. give the lost tablet. it's impossible. i'm certainly not a singer. but here's the mood i would welcome such in this song. now i'm a little. maybe you

even exaggerate, so that you feel it, space maps tucked into the tablets and the navigator specifies the route for the last time. let's curry guys, let's smoke before the start. we still have chick-14 minutes in stock pavel popovich on that, television show could not know that seeking the veracity of the description of the preparation for the flight touches the subtle creative strings of the soul of vladimir voinovich 1960 young poet. he is also a junior editor called his elemental 14 minutes before the start. with this name, he brought them to the radio and handed them to the editor natalya sukharevich. he counts in advance, then he reads rather gloomily. i think the trial period is over, then she puts this piece of paper in front of her and dials the phone number. oscar borisovich says i have something for you

brilliant text. write down, write down the lyrics over the phone, it was not shameful and did not mean that someone treats the famous composer feltsman without due respect. it was simply the fastest way to transfer information. the first personal computer went on sale only 15 years later. yes, and then in america oskorfinsman wrote down the words on a piece of paper under dictation, do not dictate words on a dusty path. distant planets will leave our traces from word for word, he dictated to me. well, they didn't make me the best impressions. as they say, i immediately sat down and got to work. you know that i won’t boast, but, probably, after an hour and a half, my music was ready. oscar borisovich feldman came up with the idea of ​​​​putting such a board on the piano music stand to make it more convenient to write notes on it

. he still works. almost all of his works of the song lilies of the valley were written on it, the black sea is mine after the rain , music for the song was written on this tablet, which the poet called 14 minutes before the start, and the composer. i believe friends. i believe, friends, the caravans of rockets will rush us forward from star to star on the dusty path of distant traces. the light planets will leave our traces and the song turned out to sink. now i can already speak famous songs, like, like the anthem of the cosmonauts on the dusty paths of the distant planet , our traces will remain. name of the song. i believe my friends were absolutely in tune with the attitude towards

space flights. in the early sixties, soviet people, despite any difficulties or meager salaries, not for gray mashed potatoes, in canteens not for simple suits. not in height. faith believed in a beautiful future atoned for any adversity. and when it was reported along the radius that the first man in space and this man was a citizen of the ussr, joy knew no bounds april 12, 1961 was the happiest day for a whole generation. i remember that day like now. without a joke, i lived then in vorkuta, we had the only one. we didn’t have a tv, there was one small one. uh, a loudspeaker program and suddenly they say, moscow is working, everything is working and it's gone, lord, i run into the kitchen, grandmother man in space. she dropped her plate. well , i immediately explained to understand my grandmother, here before the balls there were dogs here, and here a man

flew. it was our soviet euphoria. i remember, i even wrote some poems, some kind of abracadabra like everything was quiet on the ground, something all the people of the world were sleeping, only one did not leave peace, major gagarin was then something else and at the end hmm i was shocked by, all world collapse, he legend would have turned into such a burial ground, then there was a soviet citizen. why is u funny? i am never wrote the most when the song was first played on the radio. i believe friends performed by vladimir trushin. many were disappointed. i wanted to hear something very loud patriotic. closer to the attempt of leonid serebrennikov, the world was shocked, and so on, otrushin managed to calmly even somehow at home in those years, a lot of songs sounded on the radio. eh, there, m-m about the desk, so to speak, and we will defeat the exploits of the soviet people there, everything is somehow a little bit un-human. so i didn’t like that they didn’t warm, but here suddenly i heard normal good human heart

performance. it feels like just an astronaut sitting there somewhere on a step, then, over the years, we will remember my friends and i as if on the roads of the stars. if we take the first path, how we were the first to achieve our cherished goal and look at our native land from the outside, each new song that sounded on the radio was an event, people listened, appreciated, shared their impressions. like not like. and everything that was connected with the flight of gagarin was all the more perceived as something significant. i first as the youth says, he didn’t get it. i missed the ad for this song and spent a few minutes wondering who sings it. i was blood-bound to the receiver. i'm all frozen, like any man, when i return to hear this song. i'll tell you the reaction of the people to flying to this song. uh, in particular, it was about the same as the reaction would be. eh, people. we have

you in the football team became the champion of europe or the fur, the authors, of course, assumed that the reaction should be stormy cosmos is cosmos but they didn’t know who should perform the new custom song feldman was ready to call roshen at any moment, and inspired by the success of his first poetic focus of the war, he always put on a candidate. bernes was not found. they found vladimir trotro in the evening of the same day, and i arrived at the recording studio and there . so, the actor and singer vladimir troshin managed this song the next day. she was already famous. vladimir trushin, never learned to sing, he played 80 roles as a classic khatov actor in his native theater, starred in 25 films, played klimenko voroshilov, winston churchill, nikolai podgorny and

even mikhail gorbachev, but when troshin went on the stage, he immediately turned into his boyfriend, who just went out to sing for 32 years that i served on the soviet stage. i led a lot of concerts in moscow and all over the country, in which vladimir participated, you can also tell you that it was extraordinary. a closed person has not once in these 32 years failed to talk a question answer a question an answer and that's it. you can ask me what his talent screamed about, i'll tell you. very simply, he understood that the songs cannot be played. now that from which pebbles can fly into a row of tvs vladimir troshin was almost the only dramatic actor of the theater people who deeply understood how to sing a song. you ask

me, others don't, most theater people don't understand this after being a self-taught singer. vladimir troshin sang the song moscow evenings for the first time, the whole world decided that this is how the russian soul should sing, when troshin sang about space maps and rocket caravans, the astronauts decided that this was their favorite song and beyond started her pretty fantastic life of this song you understand? they began to broadcast it on the radio on television and began to demand then. well, here it is again again sing this song and so on, naturally they began to remake the song, very fertile ground, the authors gave for all kinds of jokes, the melody is remembered and the rhyme falls. a topic for quails to look for a long time. you don’t need them , life gives them a hint with a certain

understanding, and there are such words there. eh, maybe now is not the time to say. well there is such a couplet hotel with bedbugs and dusty roads. all this to us, my friend, we will have to experience and let him speak. you write that we live like gods, and we crush the newspaper and go to read. well, the authors of these lines are not astronauts. astronauts have too risky job and it's better not to joke. it is known that all astronauts are superstitious. and those who see them off in flight protect and love them like their own children, but still they remain on the ground and can afford such humor was just as popular. let in the morning with a drink, while the rocket knocks its legs, flew away for another glass, we finished the work and it 's time for us to go. let him hoarse now, comrade levitan. i believe, friends, that many years will pass and the world will forget about our labors, but our traces will remain of the video fragments of various missiles. in the sixties, which are usually pathetically called

the beginning of the era of space exploration to this song. everyone was more than serious in the performance of troshin. she sounded on television lights and countless concerts led by lev palych shumelov, the charm of this singing was in the physical stillness of the auditorium. peeped slit. i completely froze, he took a seat realizing this song, there was no stir. even some knew the words of the song were already popular, but they sang along in a whisper. they did. and for a long time , distant planets have been waiting for us, a cold planet, silent fields, but not one planet is waiting for us, since this is a planet, dear named earth, sings it so that you understand, this is happiness, sit down,

space ship happiness to wander around -something of the surface at the same time latently, maybe one of them thought, lord, if only they would return now the risk to life in the first space flight. now, gagarin, it seems, was sitting low, in the ejection seat nearby was an emergency ground supply of water, an inflatable boat and signal rockets. now we know that the flight was successful and the first cosmonaut of the planet returned safely to earth, but on the day of the flight. go, try and when you are already tired. and the third fifth dashed it off and drove off. this is how gagarin began, and now the well-known records of gagarin's negotiations with king kamanin and pavel popovich, who monitored the indicators of the cosmonaut's physical condition 15 minutes before the launch, recorded such a

dialogue by gagarin as, according to medical data , popovich's heart beats, pulse, 64 respiration 24. everything is going fine. gagarin understood, it means that the heart is still beating, when they recruited the first detachment , they had no idea what they would have to face; they recruited and prepared with such a margin that it was sometimes. it just bordered on insanity when they were twisted there in a centrifuge with a huge overload, when they demanded that the whole organism work, like clockwork, those who worked with gagarin prepared him for the flight say that he knew how to control his physical condition, he could, by an effort of will, bring blood pressure back to normal and reduce the path, and psychologically he was ready, who and the universal glory that would fall on anyone. who became the first psychologist tried to predict his behavior. well, then they already understood that the person

who was the first to visit space would fall on him all the earthly glory, and now they tried to evaluate it. how will he behave in this situation e not to get infected or star diseases. and if you still get infected, which of these first twenty will be less likely to get sick there in a severe form. well, it turned out that one of those who could really. on the first cosmonaut , it was gagarin who was the most mentally stable and most well perceived by others. german titov flew in 4 months and became the second cosmonaut in the world, the second on april 12, 1961. he could not resist asking one of the gagarins who was seeing him off. flight asked a question. tell me who discovered america yes here, naturally answered christopher columbus and who was the second? in this way, herman frankly

said that i was jealous at one time, not white, but even black envy of gagarin's flight, he was still the first and will always remain the first in honor of the flight. german titov new songs, no one wrote the song. i believe my friends continued to sound almost every day, her words were quickly remembered, people began to call the song according to the lines that they liked, someone said tucked into tablets. someone 14 minutes before the start. even the author of the song, feltsman, began to call her on the dusty paths, but everyone always knew. what song are we talking about, when ura gagarin returned to earth literally the next day i was taken to the women's to gagarin's parents to introduce them from the song and get to know each other. i arrived there. there is a small green theatre, i met there. this is how

the biography of this song on dusty paths began with my parents and my brother and sister. years walked on dusty paths. this song was first played in space for the first time, because there will be another performance of the anthem. cosmonauts after more than 20 years of performance, which cosmonauts still remember with some awkwardness, but this is a story ahead, and in august 1962 adrian nikolaev and pavel popovich , the same popovich who a year before counted the number of beats per minute of the pulse, gagarin they sang this song for the first time right in the universe , gagarin had not sung this song before that. but it wasn't much noise yet, noise. e was when they flew nikolaev, popovich and not that song in space. when the noise from the first successes in the

conquest of space was a little, the cobwebs on earth, completely earthly passions boiled, the first to come to their senses were the ladies editors, who at all times were more partisan than the party itself. and it was not the notorious censorship, but the instinct of self-preservation worked in those years , many songs were written and written. how do you say on a whim? whoever wanted something and wrote so -called custom songs, including on dusty paths. this song was ordered me and, as ordered today ordered. tomorrow we need to be ready. and so i’m talking about custom songs, too, then they become famous and remain for a long time. for a long time. a situation of absurdity began to unfold around the unofficial anthem of the cosmonauts. they decided to release the song on a record and vigilant editing. at

the radio committee. suddenly i doubted. is there dust on the paths of distant planets, one day a woman calls me from the musical editorial office and says. you know that you have such a song, but you know i have an objection there against one line against one word, even i say what you have written there on the dusty paths of distant planets. well, what is it? why are they dusty? i say, well, why, he is there, these are distant planets, there are space dust wipers. no dusty. they she says no, you know what it is? how badly dusty. let's write, but on the new paths, this option has not yet been liked by the war. he found a way to stop the editorial impulse by saying that there could be a logic error here. there are new paths, which means that there were some old ones that were not laid by us, then you know how people were frightened

when an ideological mistake is generally a horror almost a prison. here, she was frightened says, let's then write on the first paths. then i got angry and said. no. we will not write on new paths, we will not write on the first paths, we will write to me, because i say it is bad and bad on new ones and bad on the first ones on dusty ones. we'll leave on dusty. she says, in that case, we will not record a record so hard for me the record of the cosmic song about dusty paths did not come out, but it turned out that nikita sergeevich khrushchev resolved censorship fears and editorial disputes right from the podium. mausoleum on that day, the country honored two cosmonauts andrei nikolaev and pavel popovich , they were met on red square, i meet the head of the government party in and uh with nikita khrushchev and khrushchev means speaking from the podium. the mausoleum said, as it is correctly sung in

modern times, so to speak, songs on the dusty paths of distant planets will stop, well then will remain recovered our traces. after that, there was wild excitement. the text of the song was published in the newspaper, however, an incredible incident was printed twice, first in a special evening issue in red type, and then in black in the morning issue, vladimir vladimirovich was urgently offered to join the writers' union of the ussr, although he had only one, small publication of the story we live here showered orders for new song lyrics with poverty was over. before entering the radio, i was just a disaster on the radio, what turns out this is a modest salary, which in my eyes seemed. not quite decently it is 1.000 rub. i had, uh, a salary, and

i also earned five thousand or more more than that, but as soon as the song sounded, they began to order another song for me. i began to write them, sometimes three pieces a week. here but not all were hits, some were one of these hits was called the komsomol member of the twentieth year, he sang this song. all the same troshin males of the twentieth year song, of course not, space. well, it also has lines reminiscent of that great volunteer of the war by feldman and all of the allied radio. and destined for space routes. this song is almost forgotten today. yes, and the anthem of the astronauts sounds

quite rare once it was sung by iosif kobzon muslim magomayev and geo. rg today, even the classics of the soviet stage, no longer include filled tablets in their repertoire, because vladimir konstantinovich troshin sang it and i, no matter how i take this repertoire, don’t have this song. i never drank and can, uh, without quite honestly. he admitted that at this moment. this is the first performance tucked into space tablets and the navigator clarifies the route for the last time. come on guys, let's smoke before the start. we still have 4:14 minutes left. i'm friends, crayfish caravans will rush us forward from star to star on dusty paths. our footprints will never be left on the planet. on

dusty paths, when light planets remain. our traces after more than 30 years in august 1997 , the song sounded again in space, this was the very performance about which alexander lazutkin and vasily tsepliev tell dishonestly how they together with the americans, they bawled tucked into tablets in the calculation that no one hears them on earth, it was on the day when the american crew completed the work at the station and safely undocked on their shuttle already five kilometers away. he is such a small one, and suddenly the commander gets in touch with us from there. and he says, guys, we didn’t sing a song with you. we say which one. and this american crew sang a song