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,