Yaroslav Golovanov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Yaroslav Golovanov

Russian journalist

Date of Birth: 02-Jun-1932

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 21-May-2003

Profession: writer, journalist, science fiction writer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Yaroslav Golovanov

  • Yaroslav Kirillovich Golovanov (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ?????????; 2 June 1932 in Moscow – 21 May 2003 in Peredelkino) was a Russian journalist, writer and science popularizer.
  • He covered space exploration by the Soviet Union from its beginnings. Golovanov's father was director of a theatre (today's Gogol's Theatre).
  • His mother was an actress. Golovanov studied rocket engineering at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, finishing in 1957(?).
  • During 1956-58 he worked in a laboratory of the Ministry of Aviation Industry.
  • In September 1957 he started to write for the science department of the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, working there as an editor from February 1958.
  • From 1968 to 2003 he was an independent contributor of the newspaper. Golovanov soon specialized in space exploration.
  • The first novel "??????? ?????" (Thunder's Blacksmiths) deals with the lives of Soviet rocket designers. Between 1965 and 1966 Golovanov was a member of a team of three journalists, unofficial candidates for a space flight.
  • The team was disbanded after Korolyov's death.
  • (Golovanov tried, in vain, to become a cosmonaut in the early 1990s.) In 1982 he published "?????? ?? ?????????" (Doroga na kosmodrom, The Path to Cosmodrome), a detailed overview of the history of space exploration, mainly in the Soviet Union.
  • His detailed biography of Korolyov was published in 1994 under name "???????.
  • ????? ? ????" (Korolyov - facts and myths).
  • Golovanov's diary of fifty years was published in 1998-99 under the title "??????? ?????? ????????????" (Notes from Your Contemporary). In total, Yaroslav Golovanov published 20 books, which were translated into 25 languages. Golovanov was married three times: to Valentina Aleksejevna Žuravlová [with sons Vasily (born 1960) And Aleksandr (born 1965)], to Natalija Borisovna Laskin with son, Dmitri (born 1974) and to Yevgenia Markovna Albats [with daughter Olga (born 1988)].

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