Austronaut Vladimir Komarov's Welcome Speech

Vladimir Komarov was born in Moscow. In 1945 he finished Moscow Air Force special school, in 1949 - the Bataisk Military Aviation School, in 1959 - the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy. From 1952 was a member of the CPSU, from 1960 was enrolled in the cosmonaut corps. October 12th of 1964 made a flight as a spaceship commander with Konstantin Feoktistov and B. Yegorov. He stayed in the space a day and made 16 turns passing 700 thousand km. Vladimir Komarov died during the new “Soyuz 1” spaceship testing in Orenburg. Is buried in Red Square under the Kremlin wall.