i graduated from the tsizrovskaya higher military aviation school of pilots in 1979. military aviation school? the chuvash people have raised worthy of their own. also our representative became cosmonaut number three, this is andrian grigorievich nikolaev, and i was just a little boy, as you said, and this message struck all of us when they asked , boy, what will you be when you grow up, everything the boys responded to the astronauts, and the path to space then lay through a flight school, usually a military school, so since childhood i dreamed of going this route along the path of andrian grigorievich nikolaev and chose the school. closer to the chuvash, syzran, the higher military aviation school of pilots, and i applied there, got accepted the first time, yes, wait, well, if the path to astronautics, as i understand it, always lay through aviation, well, how to say, large fighter, but you are a helicopter pilot, well, i didn’t go to helicopter school, i went to military school when i arrived in syzran and saw that instead of fighters there were helicopters flying t