Abstract
Participation of Leningrad scientists, industrial workers and representatives of other institutions of this city in creation of various components of machines and technical products which assisted in realization of historical space flight of the first manned spacecraft ―Vostok‖ with the citizen of the USSR, major Yury Alekseevich Gagarin has been analyzed in the article. Leningrad citizens – representatives of different professions and specialties, such as opticians, biophysicists, specialties of radio and telecommunication engineering, mathematicians and scientists of gas dynamics, chemistry, digital machinery and others participated in preparation of the first space flight. The author of the article mentions such Leningrad enterprises, scientific establishments and higher institutions as Leningrad metal plant, M.I. Kalinin’s plant, mathematical institute named after V.A. Steklov AS USSR, physical-technological institute named after A.F. Yoffe AS USSR, State optical institute named after S.I. Vavilov, SRI-195, now the Institute of radio navigation and time, State institute of applied chemistr y, AUSRI of Television, special design offices (OKB-448, STKB ―Biophyspribor‖). The role of Leningrad higher institutions, namely Petr Velikyi Polytechnic University, Leningrad University named after A.A. Zhdanov; Leningrad holding the Order of the Red Banner Air Force Academy named after A.F. Mozhaisky has also been emphasized in the considered processes. It has been analyzed technological innovations, technical devices and techn ological decisions of Leningrad citizens participated in preparation and reali zation of the first manned space flight. It is named those scientists and industrial workers who partic ipated in their production as well as those who were awarded State Prizes according to the results of Yu. A. Gagarin’s space flight. It has been mentioned that in definite cases necessary for the flight technics or technical devices were manufactured at the enterprises of the city and tested at the plants ground. Such specific form of Leningrad citizens’ participation in preparing the first manned space flight as the work of one of the teachers from the Air Force Academy aimed at the radio techniques training the Orenburg flight school cadets in the second half 0f 1950s has also been described in the article. Just at that time Yury Gagarin studied in this school.
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