Korolev Biography childhood

Childhood and youth Childhood and Youth - Sergey Korolev was born on New Year's Eve, in the late evening of December 30, Sergey’s father, Pavel Yakovlevich Korolev, was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in the male gymnasium of Zhytomyr. Mother - Maria Nikolaevna Koroleva, nee Moskalenko; In G. When Seryozha was born, she was 18 years old. The house in the city of Zhitomir, in which Korolev S.

Family Life of the Queens of the Couple was born almost immediately after the wedding. When Seryozha was only three years old, the marriage of his parents actually broke up. In the city of Maria Nikolaevna entered the highest women's courses in Kyiv, and since Sergey had no one to leave with, she took him to her parents in Nezhin. Here in Nezhina, Sergei Korolev spent his early childhood.

He grew up for everyone beloved, but he did not have yard friends. Seryozha went out into the street only accompanied by adults, since his relatives were afraid that Sergei could secretly take his father. In July, a month later, the grandfather and grandmother of Sergei, having sold their house and a store in Nezhin, moved to Kyiv closer to their children. Sergey was very happy about this.

Now he could often see his mother, Aunt Anna and Uncle Vasily, whom he loved very much and called Vasyunya. Here in Kyiv in the city of Sergey Korolev went to preparatory courses for admission to the gymnasium. In October, Grigory Mikhailovich Balanin, a teacher and an engineer in education, graduated from three institutes. Balanin did not adopt Sergey, but he treated him very well and taught a lot.

At the beginning of the city, Balanin received a referral to Odessa by the head of the port station. Sergei Korolev, together with his mother, arrived in Odessa in May in September, he went to the first grade of the gymnasium, but two months later a communist revolution took place in the country. All gymnasiums were closed. After some time, labor schools opened instead of them, but Sergey Korolev did not happen to study at school.

In years in Odessa, vague times of the Civil War were established. As a teenager, Sergey saw how the Austro-German, English, French troops of the Entente countries, and then the White Guards, Denikin residents left Odessa at first, were planted in the Odessa port. Only in the city in the period with G. Sergey studied at home.

His teachers were mom and stepfather. Here he taught three languages ​​at once - Russian, Ukrainian, German. He studied mathematics, physics, history, drawing, and even mastered the foundations of the sopromat of the materials of the materials - the science of the strength, stiffness and stability of elements of engineering structures. That year passed under the slogan “Give you wings!

Sergey spent all his free time in the Odessa port and met the pilots and mechanics of the propaganda hydration. He helped them repair airplanes. In the summer of G. he was 16 years old, and this first flight on the hydroplan was remembered for his life. Sergei Korolev decided to engage in aviation and began to design his first glider to Sergey, on the council of his stepfather, he entered the Kiev Polytechnic Institute of the KPI at the aeromechanical department, and Lyalya, so they called Ksenia at the school, went to study at the Kharkov Medical Institute.

The queen had to pay for training at the institute, as he belonged to the category of children of the labor intelligentsia. At that time, only workers and peasants and their children had the right to free training. Sergei's parents did not have the opportunity to fully maintain it, so Korolev earned some time the newspaper for some time. He got up at 5 in the morning, carried newspapers, and then went to the institute.

Korolev began to engage in planning sports courses at the KPI. Participated in the construction of institute planners.