Space - my destiny. Notes from "Sailor"s Silence". In 2 volumes (set of 2 books + DVD-ROM)

Book 1.
Cosmos - My fate. Notes from "Sailor Silence". Volume 1.
In this edition, for the first time, diary records of the Hero of Socialist Labor, the Laureate of the Leninist Prize Oleg Dmitrievich Baklanov (1932), which he led in the chamber of the investigative isolator "Matroskaya Silence" in 1991-1993. Minister of General Engineering of the USSR (1983-1988), Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Cultivating Defense Questions (1988-1991), Deputy Chairman of the Defense Council under the President of the USSR (1990-1991), he was in prison in the case of the so-called GKCP in August 1991, trying to withstand the treacherous policy of the then head of the country M.S. Gorbachev, aimed at the decay of the Great Soviet Union. However, the focus of the close attention of the author"s notes is not so much a chronicle of the prisoner and memories of personal life, how much thought of man, from the young age and forever dedicated to serving space. In the eyes of O.D. Baklanov and with his direct participation, difficult, sometimes a tragic, but glorious history of the struggle for the development of near-earth space. She approached his apogeu in 1987 and 1988 in the form of great triumphs of our country - successful tests of a new powerful universal carrier missile "energy", as well as the launch of the Multi-Energy-Buran system. Both events in the space hierarchy brought the USSR to the lead position in the world. Notes OD Baklanov are talking about the prominent figures of the state and party, the defense and rocket and space industry, the general and main designers and directors, scientists, military leaders, cosmonauts, contain a lot of valuable, sometimes unexpected, material about key figures of the time. The publication is richly illustrated, many pictures are published for the first time. In the first volume, records made in August - December 1991 are printed.


Book 2

Cosmos - My fate. Notes from "Sailor Silence". Volume 2.

In the second part of the two-volume minist Oleg Dmitrievich Cablanova Cosmos - My fate is completed by the publication of the "prison diaries" of the author (recordings from January 1992 to January 1993) However, in the center of the narration, there is not so much a chronicle of his illegal imprisonment in the "sailor silence" ( Although it is of great interest for a wide reader), how much reflection on the main thing about the life of the ever-"secret" minister of the USSR, secretary of the CPSU Central Committee on Defense Affairs - about space, the possibilities of its further development, how the price went to the Soviet Union Rocket and Nuclear Parity with the West, about unrealized prospects that opened in our country due to the successful start of the unique multi-sized space system "Energy-Buran". With a special warmth of OD Baklanov talks about his teachers and comrades, the wonderful cohort of the creators of Soviet space triumphs: S.P. Korolev, V.P. Glushko, M.S. Maizanskogo, N.A. Pilyugin, V.I. Kuznetsov, V.P. Barmin. Among the relatives of ODBaklanov, people associated or with space, or with other areas of activity, - people about whom Oleg Dmitrievich spoke penetratingly, - S.A. Afanasyev, B.E. Paton, I.V. Mescheryakov, .L. Malkevich, A.V. Seeenkov, V.V. Sharbitsky, V.I. Zaitsev, M.I. Pozkkin, J.F.zinchenko and other outstanding compatriots. The publication presents numerous photos from the author"s archive. Most pictures are published for the first time.


DVD-ROM