Patsaev Victor Biography

At the age of 6, I went to school. He graduated from the first class with a commendable diploma. When the war began, father, Ivan Panteleevich, volunteered for the front and died in October in the battles near Moscow. Mother, Maria Sergeevna, raised two children and worked: she unloaded the echelons with the wounded, led the commission for collecting and sending warm things to the front, for the construction of a tank column, she surrendered her savings - 12 thousand rubles.

Since the year, Victor lived and studied in the city of Nesterov of the Kaliningrad region. Then he entered the Penza Industrial Institute. During his studies, he was engaged in fencing, regularly participated in scientific and technical conferences, wrote articles for the regional newspaper "Young Leninets". In June, he defended a perfectly diploma project on the topic “Development of a harmonic analyzer of functions”.

A year later, he became a senior engineer of the research department of the upper layers of the atmosphere. Developed a number of aerological devices. Working in the observatory, at the same time studied in an aero club. In the year, he went to work in the KB S. successfully handed over the candidate at least and went to graduate school. In the year, he was enrolled in a detachment of astronauts.

Member of the CPSU from the year. During the daily flight, Viktor Patsaev conducted a set of comprehensive inspections of various on -board systems of the station, carried out numerous scientific experiments and research: high -frequency electronic resonance on transmitting radio antennaps, research in the field of low -temperature plasma, spectrography of the beta centaurian star using the Orion orbital atmosphere by the method of spectrifying daily Twilight horizon, studies of polarization of sunlight, light effects during the operation of control engines, the effect of the environment on the optical surface of the portholes with various coatings, growing in conditions of weightlessness of Hibinan cabbage, flax and onion-toesis.

The results of his work played an important role in the development of the technique of manned space flights. In total, I stayed in space for 42 minutes 12 seconds, flying 15 kilometers. When the search group, which discovered the descent device in kilometers southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan, opened the hatch, then found the astronauts motionlessly sitting at workplaces.

All resuscitation measures did not give results. He was buried on Red Square in the Kremlin wall. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated June 30, for heroism, courage and courage, shown when testing a new space complex - the Salut orbital station and the Soyuz transport ship, Viktor Ivanovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously.

He was awarded the Order of Lenin by his name Crater on the Moon and the small planet Patsayev, streets in Aktobinsk, Kaluga and Avenue in Dolgoprudny. A memorial plaque was installed on his name in Kaluga, also a memorial plaque is installed in the city of Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region. At the site of the death of the Soyuz crew in the Zhanaarkinsky district of Karaganda now - the Shatu region of Kazakhstan, a monument was erected in the year in the year.