deputy head of the zhukovsky air force engineering academy, professor, candidate of technical sciences vyacheslav konstantinovich markov. hello. today let us remember what gagarin, talk about his heroic flight, and, of course, understand why his name is forever inscribed in the history of all mankind. i know that you started your studies at the academy together with sagarin, september 1, 1961, by that time he had already become famous, he had completed his space flight, please tell us about your first meeting and what was it like? yes, indeed, you are right. that on september 1, 1961, yuri alekseevich and i stood in the same formation. on september 1 - this is the general formation of the entire personnel of the academy , two cosmonauts stood in the foreground: yuri aleseevich gagarin and german stepanovich tetov. so, at first everything was mixed, but after a month and a half or two, i don’t remember exactly now, they no longer always attended classes and were singled out. a separate group, but it must be said that the program was absolutely the same, they had to receive a full engineering education, so sergei pavlovich korolev, it was he who recommended them