The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Soviet designer of rocket and space complexes Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel.




"Satan" is a heavy ballistic missile of the so-called global type, with no range limitation within one orbit around the Earth, the charge capacity is up to 25 megatons (this is almost 2000 Hiroshima).
The name of the rocket was given by the Americans when they learned about its characteristics.
Peaceful rockets "Cosmos", "Cyclone", "Zenit" and "Dnepr" are also rockets of Yangel and his students.
He left behind a real rocket school.
The film stars Vladimir Gubarev, Stanislav Us, Joseph Igdalov, Sergei Khrushchev, Vladimir Popovkin and academician's daughter Lyudmila Yangel.
M.K. Yangel - Doctor of Technical Sciences
1940s 1960s 1974
Moscow Kazakhstan Vladivostok Japan USA