Famous people of our country and of a foreign country. Sergey Korolev Sergey Pavlovich Korolev the Founder of Practical Cosmonautics. Academician Korolev is a famous scientist and a founder of practical cosmonautics. He was the chief constructor of the first Earth sputniks and spaceships. Korolev was born in 1906 in the small Ukrainian town of Zhitomir into a family of teachers. He spent his childhood with his grandparents in the town of Nezhin where he studied at home with a teacher. He was interested in mathes, literature and he read a great deal. In 1923 Sergey Korolev joined a Glider Pilots’ Club where he learned to construct gliders and to fly them. In 1925 Korolev entered the Kiev Polytechnical Institute where he studied aviation and maths, but in the evening he had to work for money. After two years in Kiev Korolev came to Moscow and entered the Moscow Higher Technical School. During the Great Patriotic War Korolev constructed a jet engine for aeroplanes and rockets. The first man-made sputnik of the Earth was a result of hard work of hard work of scientist Korolev. S. P. Korolev died in 1966. For his brilliant work in the name of science and progress he was awarded two Gold Stars of the Hero of Socialist Labour. People will always remember the names of those who opened a new era in the conquest of outer space, and the name of S.P. Korolev is one of them.
