A test engineer's ballad
Tyura-Tam–Plesetsk: From Rocket Technician to Ingenious Engineer
The memoirs of a test engineer about closed cities, rocket ranges, military service, and the road from Tyura-Tam to Plesetsk.
Table of contents
All chapters
- 01 The Beginning
- 02 Sorokovka
- 03 Tomsk-7, Tomsk-13
- 04 Krasnoyarsk-26
- 05 A City on the Angara
- 06 Hoş Geldiniz! (Welcome)
- 07 Everyday Life
- 08 Noxious Gases
- 09 Motor Railcar
- 10 Akim-Bolt
- 11 The Fighters
- 12 Leave of '64
- 13 Fishing and Hunting
- 14 How We Locked Horns with the Americans
- 15 Showmanship and December 14
- 16 Ladyzhenka
- 17 Handball
- 18 St Petersburg
- 19 The Avdonkins and Vova Kochnev
- 20 Plesetsk
- 21 Kobuleti
- 22 Service
- 23 Disaster in Military Unit 14056
- 24 Hunting and Fishing
- 25 Polyarnye Zori
- 26 Kodlo Lake
- 27 Holidays
- 28 Time to Call It a Day
- 29 Appendix: How Khrushchev Stood Up for ‘Our Fidel’