The Century of Afanasyev (2018)

Documentary №100688, 1 part, duration: 0:26:26
Production: Studio Roscosmos
Director:Konstantin Kolodyazhnij, Larisa Simonova
Screenwriters:Konstantin Nemirovskij
Camera operators:Konstantin Kolodyazhnij, Artem Lebedj
Anouncers:Aleksandr Klyukvin

Annotation:

The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR Sergey Alexandrovich Afanasyev, who played a major role in the development of the rocket and space and defense industries.

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After the end of the Great Patriotic War in a destroyed country, Moscow finds the strength to create a nuclear and missile industry.

The new branch was supervised by Lavrenty Beria.

Sergey Afanasyev, a process engineer from Perm, where he worked at an artillery factory, was transferred to Moscow and appointed head of the technical department of the Ministry of Armament.

Afanasyev spent several years at the Southern Machine-Building Plant in Dnepropetrovsk, in 1965 he headed the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR, since 1983 he headed the Ministry of Heavy and Transport Engineering of the USSR. Since 1988, he became a consultant in the group of inspectors General of the Ministry of Defense and until the last days of his life was the chief scientific consultant of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.

In the preparation of the film, chronicle footage from different years was used, as well as fragments of an interview with Sergei Afanasyev.

The film starred Director of the Klin Museum Association Elena Kondrashina, Chief Specialist of the Ministry of General Engineering (1965-1988) Nikolay Timofeev, Minister of General Engineering (1988-1989) Vitaly Doguzhiev, Minister of General Engineering (1983-1988) Oleg Baklanov, cosmonauts Alexey Leonov, Sergey Krikalev, Vladimir Remek, Miroslav Germashevsky and Abdul Ahad Momand.

Personnel:

Afanasyev S.A. - Soviet statesman, Minister of General Engineering of the USSR (1965-1983), Minister of Heavy and Transport Engineering of the USSR (1983-1987), twice Hero of Socialist Labor. Brezhnev L.I. - statesman and party leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee (1966-1982). Ford D.R. (King L.L.) - statesman and politician, 38th President of the United States. Stalin I.V. is a revolutionary, political, state, military and party leader. Beria L.P. is a revolutionary, Soviet statesman and politician. Khrushchev N.S. - Soviet statesman and politician, Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor three times, 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1953-1964), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1958-1964). Kennedy D.F. is an American politician, the 35th President of the United States. Leonov A.A. - Soviet pilot-cosmonaut, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. T.P. Stafford is an American astronaut, fighter pilot, test pilot, Lieutenant General of the Air Force, honorary citizen of Kaliningrad. V.Kh. Doguzhiev - Soviet statesman, Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR (1988-1989), Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1989-1991), Acting Prime Minister of the USSR (1991), Hero of Socialist Labor. S.P. Korolev is a Soviet scientist, design engineer, general designer of the rocket and space industry of the USSR, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, twice Hero of Socialist Labor. Baklanov O.D. - Soviet economic and political figure, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Minister of General Mechanical Engineering of the USSR (1983-1988), Hero of Socialist Labor. Krikalev S.K. is an aviation athlete, cosmonaut, development engineer, candidate of Psychological Sciences, academician of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after K.E.Tsiolkovsky. V. Remek - the first pilot-cosmonaut of Czechoslovakia, Hero of the Czech SSR, Hero of the Soviet Union, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the Russian Federation (since 2014). M. Germashevsky is the first Polish cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union. Momand A.A. is the first cosmonaut of Afghanistan, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Calendar: 1940s-1970s 1988 1999 2010

Locations: Moscow [820] Moscow region [788] Kazakhstan [114] USA [851]

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