a prisoner of scythes. the last citizen of the ussr, forgotten in orbit, as journalists call sergei krikalevt union and returned to russia. he was on a space station when he was informed that the country that sent him into space had ceased to exist, and there was no opportunity to return to earth then. if you are running 5 km and having run more than half the distance, they tell you, and now we are running 10, part of the energy has already been spent on the basis that you only need to run five. from home, when he found out that the soviet union was no more, how he found out about it, what he had to go through to survive in space for 311 days, who was waiting for him on earth and what his return was like, this is the life and fate of sergei krikalyova, good morning, sergei konstantinovich, happy holiday to you, i understand what day today is for you, well, practically it is like that. professional easter, cosmonautics day, of course, and it’s not just ours, it’s now international cosmonautics day, and not only for cosmonauts, it’s our common holiday, cosmonautics day, the day of this, let’s