APPOINTMENT OF UKRAINIAN SERHII KOROLIOV CHIEF SPACE ENGINEER
Serhiy Koroliov, a famous scientist, was born in Zhytomyr region in 1906. His destiny turned out to be quite difficult and tried the strength of
Serhii Pavlovych Koroliov
the future designer not but once. He experienced wars, revolution and Stalin concentration camps before becoming the head of the Soviet space program. However, despite all the odds, S. Koroliov passed all the tests with honours and glorified his Motherland for many years to come.
Certain events preceded Koroliov's appointment as the principal designer of spaceships and rockets. In 1945, after the war was over, Koroliov was sent to Germany as a member of the group of several scientists to get acquainted with trophy rockets. On coming back to Moscow in 1946 h
