Nesterenko - Sukhina Grigorii Alekseevich

One of Russia's outstanding achievements in the 20th century was the creation of missile technology, which allowed our country to reliably protect its security and make a landmark breakthrough into space. The names of scientists, engineers and production organizers who worked on the missile project have only recently become known after the lifting of the secrecy regime. Among them is the hero of this book - Lieutenant General Alexey Nesterenko. An experienced artilleryman, a participant of the Great Patriotic War, who first used the famous "katyusha" in battle, in 1955 became the builder of the Baikonur test site, led the launch of the first Soviet ballistic missile and the world's first artificial satellite of the Earth. The biography of A.I. Nesterenko, inseparable from the history of the cosmodrome created by him, was written by researchers of rocket technology G. Sukhin and V. Ivankin.