alexey arkipech was, of course, famous as an astronaut, but at the same time he was a gifted artist, , some kind of pranks, that our life was quite fun, and of course, we miss dad scary things, i remember my first meeting with alexei arkhibovich in december 2003, when we traditionally... celebrated the new year with a group of cosmonauts, except active cosmonauts, we always invite our veterans, this was the first time we saw alexey arkhipych, he greeted us, young cosmonauts and their wives very warmly, talked to us a lot, we took the first photo as a souvenir with him, we were very proud and still are we are proud of these photographs, and indeed he was, as they say, the life of the party, he had a lot of stories, and really very funny, very funny, it was a pleasure to communicate with him , it was always a pleasure to communicate, well, even more so it was such a pleasure to be with him live, here in our family there was one big star, of a very large scale, and we were all such small satellites that revolved around, but we revolved very devotedly and faithfully, and we were always re