military... school, so since childhood i dreamed of going this way along the path of andrean grigorievich nikolaev and chose the school closer to chuvashie syzransk, the higher military aviation school of pilots, and i applied there and got in the first time, but wait, well, if the path to cosmonautics, as i understand it, always lay through aviation, well, how can i say, a large fighter, and you are a helicopter pilot, i did not enter the helicopter. school, i entered the military school, when i arrived in syzran, i saw that instead of fighters there were helicopters flying, i was naturally upset at first, but now i realize that this is god's will, i was lucky that this is a very wonderful type of aviation and i became helicopter pilot, you've been a mi-8 your whole life, i 'm saying that...

i graduated from the tsyzron higher military aviation school of pilots in 1979. and how did a boy from a small chuvash village suddenly end up in a military aviation school? well, the chuvash people raised worthy sons, too. our representative became cosmonaut number three, this is andreyan grigorievich nikolaev, and i was just there a little boy, as you said, and this message struck us all, when they asked the boy, what will you be when you grow up, all the boys answered astronaut, and the path to space then lay through a flight school, usually a military school, so i dreamed of going this way since childhood, along the way adrian grigorol received the documents on the first try, yes, wait, the path to cosmonautics, as i understand it, always lay through aviation, well , how can i say, big, fighter, and you are a helicopter pilot, i did not enter a helicopter school, i entered a military school, when i arrived in syzran and saw that instead of fighters there were helicopters flying there, i was naturally upset at first, but now i realize that this was god's will,

military school, so since childhood i dreamed of going this way along the path of andrean grigorovich nikolaev and chose a school closer to chuvashia, sizransk, the higher military aviation school of pilots, and i applied there and was accepted the first time, but wait, well, if the path to cosmonautics, as i understand it, always lay through aviation, well, how can i say, big, fighter, and you are a helicopter pilot. i did not enter a helicopter school, i entered a military school, when i arrived in sizran, i saw that instead of fighters, they fly there helicopters, i was naturally upset at first, but now i realize that this is god, god's will, i was lucky that this is a very beautiful type of aviation and i became a helicopter pilot, you have been mi-8 all your life, i say conditionally that i am the final exam at the syzyron higher military aviation school. i passed the mi-8, began to serve in the armed forces, and from lieutenant to lieutenant general i flew on the mi-8, i retired from civil aviation, flying on the mi-8, there are probably no such people, i was lucky with this helicopter, it is a unique flying machine an apparatus that will certainly be included in the guinness book