Austronaut Adrian Nikolaev's New Year Speech

Andrian Nikolaev was born in Shorshely village. In 1947 he finished Marinsko-Posad Forestry Technical School, in 1954 the Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School and the Air Force Engineering Academy named after Zhukovsky in 1968. Since 1960 Andrian Nikolaev was a member of the first cosmonaut corps, in 1962 he made a 4-day space flight alone, second - in 1970 with Vitaly Sevastyanov for 18 days. Both flights were record-breaking in duration, there was no orbital station at that time, both flights took place from start to finish on a spaceship, the area of which was half of the shower room of the "Khrushchev". Died in Cheboksary.