Today his name of the street and avenues in Moscow, Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Bratsk and Zheleznogorsk. In honor of a Siberian named a village in Angara, the Moscow metro station and a crater on the Moon, the Pacific jet and the peak in the Pamirs … The jubilee year of space turns a hundred years since the birth of one of those "low" characters that made our country a superpower space. About how wide and open person lived under strict state protection, on his visit to Siberia, relationships with family and with the authorities told us the niece of the academician, Ph.D. Tatiana Yangel. "Neakademichny … Tatiana Yakovlevna – the daughter of James Kuzmich Yangelya, the youngest of twelve children who were born in the family every two years. Until six years she lived in the same house where I grew up coming designer. Zyryanov Nizhneilimskogo village area where the house stood, there is no more – gone to the bottom of the Ust-Ilim Reservoir. A building of the logs was moved to Berezniki – friends, colleagues and lovers in the space now people know him as a house museum, Mikhail Yangel. Almost all of the twelve children had gone to Moscow and Leningrad to study, only junior would not let her mother Anna Pavlovna. Family traditions preserved carefully. – I still remember the wonderful smell: walk into the barn, and there are barrels of cranberries, mushrooms, sauerkraut … stocked up on all the big family, although the older kids were already departed, – tells Tatyana Yakovlevna. She recalls how when they first met it was already impressed by the "widely known in narrow circles" uncle: – Its all been waiting for the arrival, only the talk was, that is about to come Misha. Charming, smiling, friendly, have, he had me completely smitten. He spoke to me as an adult, asked what I was wondering what books I read … Before me no one is talking about. I remember very well, and the last meeting in 1965 or 1966, he traveled to Kiev to join his brother Paul, whom we visited. Mikhail Kuzmich said then: "How do I want to gather you together!" He was about to promise a large house with guest rooms … you know, he had a keen sense of kinship. He helped us when it is not enough money for a brick house. He was not academic, closed, constantly smiling – all the photographs in his smile. It is very attracted to him. My sister told me that about the same capacity – the ability to gather people around her – told the astronauts and engineers who gathered in Zheleznogorsk the anniversary meeting. In Michael Yangelya was very wide circle of friends – and this despite the atmosphere of secrecy in which he lived. None of the neighbors would not even know about the profession egendarnogo design, all just to say: "Misha serious work and responsible position." If there ever was a personal guard, even in his native village he came with an armed escort – an unimaginable phenomenon at the time. It's incredibly depressed man who loved hunting and fishing. They say even as Mikhail Kuzmich, seeing the meadow mowers, asked to stop the car and give him a scythe. Raised in a family dispossessed peasant, he knew how much and happy to work with. And why are you still alive? Three "rocket genius" of that era – Sergei Korolev, Mikhail Yangel and Vladimir Chelomei at some stages are constantly vying with each other. Niece of the designer tells us how in the early fifties he was appointed chief of NII-88 in Moscow, and in subjection to him was Korolev. Yangel understood that it is impossible not to work, competing with such a great man, he tendered his resignation. – It's called "break the monopoly of the Queen" – say, many designers, he had his hands – explains the historian. – But it was more a hardware game between people was not a confrontation. As a result, both found their niche: Korolev has concentrated on space exploration, Yangel – to create intercontinental ballistic missiles. Yangel later founded his design bureau in Dnepropetrovsk and worked there alone while the family was in Moscow. The most difficult moment in the life of the designer was an accident in 1960 when a rocket exploded at the start of the R-16. Killed more than a hundred people, including Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin. Yangel then miraculously saved, because the smoke away. – After the accident, Nikita Khrushchev called him and asked: "What died? Many died, right? And why are you alive? "- Says Tatiana Yakovlevna. – This phrase Mikhail Kuzmich recalled before the end of life. Perhaps somewhere in his heart he believed that he gave the country a lot and still has a right to expect understanding and acceptance. But when the secretary general visited Yangelya in Dnipropetrovsk, and glanced at the production of missiles, was born the famous phrase: "We are producing missiles like sausages." Our interviewee also leads another statement the Secretary General. After seeing the production, he said: "If these missiles were on our arms, the Third World could never happen." Many of the foreign names of the accused Yangelya that he is a spy. Strazhev Irina, the wife academic, came a letter that her husband – who came from Germany spy. And in the thirties died from torture by his eldest brother Constantine – the first man from Nizhneilimskogo district, received by the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Boy accused of what he Japanese spy. Michael Yangel with some mystical precision lived exactly 60 years – nomore hours. Its a lot of time saved, an academician has suffered three major heart attack and many mikroinfarktov. Heart had stopped at a reception to congratulate the hero of the day came when the last visitor. Dossier: Michael Kuzmich Yangel – designer of space-rocket complexes, twice Hero of Socialist Labor, Laureate of Lenin and State prizes. Born October 25, 1911 in the village Zyryanova Irkutsk region, and died October 25, 1971-th. His elder brother, Alexander became a general of the Soviet army. In Zheleznogorsk-Ilim Irkutsk region today a museum named after Mikhail Yangel.
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