peter kashtanov an ordinary guy from the russian outback was born in khabarovsk but grew up in the tambovegion, where his parents moved . a few years later, peter is the younger in the family, there are two more sisters and a brother from childhood, a boy, dreamed of becoming a pilot and the dream was not born by chance near the village of zherdyovka, where they lived, there was a military airfield, they ran to look at these planes. here , strong beautiful fighter aircraft that explode into the sky perform aerobatics of incredible beauty and complexity . i want to be a pilot director, cosmonauts like that. the main thing is that there is a dream, and it happened to peter with an instrument. peter stormed the reception room several times. the flight school commission, but the time came for army service, he got into the tank troops, on his return he again tried to enter the flying sky, beckoned, it did not work out, then there was the ordinary life of a young man from the provinces. i worked at a factory looking for myself, then another attempt at admission. the third , then again, and then