Nesterenko

One of the outstanding achievements of Russia in the twentieth century was the creation of rocket technology, which allowed our country to reliably protect their safety and make an epochal breakthrough into space. The names of scientists, engineers, organizers of production, who worked on the implementation of the rocket project, were only recently known after removing secrecy regime from them. Among them and the hero of this book - Lieutenant General Alexey Ivanovich Nesterenko. An experienced artilleryman, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, who first applied the famous" Katyusha"s famous Katyushi in 1955, became the builder of the Baikonur landfill, led the launch of the first Soviet ballistic missile and the world"s first artificial satellite in the world. The biography of A.I.nesterenko, inseparable from the history of the cosmodrome created by him, was written researchers of rocket technology G. Sushina and V.Ivkin