In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrovich and the family name is Kamanin.
Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin
Native name
Никола́й Петро́вич Кама́нин
Born
(1908-10-18)18 October 1908 Melenki, Vladimir Governorate, Russia
Died
11 March 1982(1982-03-11) (aged 73) Moscow, Soviet Union
Allegiance
Soviet Union
Service/branch
Red Army
Soviet Air Forces
Years of service
1927-1972
Rank
Colonel General
Awards
Hero of the Soviet Union
Other work
Soviet space program, head of cosmonaut training
Signature
Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin (Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Кама́нин; 18 October 1908 – 11 March 1982) was a Soviet Air Force general and a program manager in the Soviet space program. A career aviator, he awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1934 for the rescue of SS Chelyuskin crew from an improvised airfield on the frozen surface of the Chukchi Sea near Kolyuchin Island.
In World War II he successfully commanded an air brigade, air division, and air corps, reaching the rank of Airforce Colonel General and Air Army commander after the war. It was at this time that his son, Arkady Kamanin, became a fighter pilot at the age of 14, the youngest military pilot in world history.
From 1960 to 1971, General Kamanin was the program manager of the cosmonaut training in the Soviet space program. He recruited and trained the first generation of cosmonauts, including Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Gherman Titov and Alexei Leonov. Kamanin was the Soviet Air Force representative to the space program, a proponent of crewed orbital flight and air force influence over the Space Race. His diaries of this period, published from 1995 to 2001, are among the most important sources documenting the progress of the Soviet space program.[1][2]
^An abridged concise English version is available online at www.astronautix.com Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
^Full Russian edition: Каманин, Н.П., "Скрытый космос" ("Hidden Cosmos"), М, v.1 1995, v.2 1997, v.3 1999, v.4 2001 ISBN 5-93345-002-2; the Russian text is available at line at a number of web sites, such as http://militera.lib.ru/db/kamanin_np/index.html
Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin (Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Кама́нин; 18 October 1908 – 11 March 1982) was a Soviet Air Force general and a program manager...
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ISBN 1-85233-391-X. NikolaiKamanin's personal diaries, from 1960 to 1971. A summary and English translation by Mark Wade is available online at Kamanin Diaries,...
on the opinion of the head of cosmonaut training, NikolaiKamanin. In an April 5 diary entry, Kamanin wrote that he was still undecided between Gagarin...
then to Baikonur for their mission debriefing.: 457–459 General NikolaiKamanin's diary later gave the landing location of the Voskhod 2, about 75 kilometres...
number one), Sigizmund Levanevsky, Vasily Molokov, Mavriky Slepnyov, NikolaiKamanin, Ivan Doronin, and Mikhail Vodopianov, who participated in the successful...
by a special interdepartmental commission led by Lieutenant-General NikolaiKamanin, the overseer of the Vostok programme. The commission was tasked with...
spaceflight aboard Vostok 1. Manned orbital flight program director NikolaiKamanin blamed Bondarenko's death on the Institute's poor organisation and...
The idea to launch the first female flight was conceived by NikolaiKamanin in 1961. Kamanin convinced Sergey Korolev, former Soviet rocket engineer to...
have about 250 staff. Vershinin assigned the already famous aviator NikolaiKamanin to supervise operations at the facility. By March, most of the cosmonauts...
captain and squadron commander. His corps commander was then-colonel NikolaiKamanin, a celebrated polar aviator and a future head of the cosmonaut training...
General Pyotr Arkhangelsky) 8th Mixed Aviation Corps (Major General NikolaiKamanin) 3rd Fighter Aviation Corps (Major General Yevgeny Savitsky) 7th Fighter...
Vostok 2. Such a mission was opposed by the head of cosmonaut training NikolaiKamanin and the cosmonauts themselves, who were concerned about unforeseen...
but survived), Vasily Molokov, Mavriky Slepnyov, Mikhail Vodopianov, NikolaiKamanin and Ivan Doronin. Liapidevsky flew an ANT-4, the civilian version of...
"mechanical engineering", 1999. ISBN 5-217-02942-0 "The hidden space" – NikolaiKamanin, М: "Инфортекс-ИФ, 1995. "S. P. Korolev. Encyclopedia of life and creativity"...
Vladimir Ilyin as Sergei Korolev (general designer) Anatoliy Kotenyov as NikolaiKamanin (lieutenant-general) Alexandra Ursuliak as Svetlana Leonova Yelena...
selection as a cosmonaut. After the flight of Yuri Gagarin in 1961, NikolaiKamanin, director of cosmonaut training, read in the American media that female...
working with the cosmonauts in flight and training activities" and asked NikolaiKamanin for him to be cited in the official report into the Soyuz 1 crash,...
Galanov (series 341) – Alexander Zhigalkin The Age of Pioneers (2017) as NikolaiKamanin – Dmitry Kiselyov The Humorist (2019) as general Yasenev – Mikhail...
Research Institute, HSU Vladimir Ilyushin, test pilot for OKB Sukhoi, HSU NikolaiKamanin, polar aviator, among the first to receive the title Hero of the Soviet...
entered in the city's cultural heritage register. Alexander Vinokourov Nikolai Tikhonov Yakov Fedorenko Klavdiya Nikolaeva Pyotr Pospelov Panteleimon...
discrimination. Meanwhile, the USSR's director of cosmonaut training, NikolaiKamanin, lobbied for having women as cosmonauts, after being inspired in 1961...
deserved a place in the Kremlin wall like Yuri Gagarin. According to NikolaiKamanin's diaries, the cosmonauts, Shatalov in particular, pressed the issue...
of chess against a pair of opponents on Earth: head of cosmonauts NikolaiKamanin and fellow cosmonaut Viktor Gorbatko. It was the first documented game...
and pressurizing the interior. However, when space program director NikolaiKamanin left the control room, "everything went terribly wrong"; the Tyuratam-based...
company "Lavatera", 2013. ISBN 978-5-904341-26-8 "The hidden space" – NikolaiKamanin, М: "Inforteks-if", 1995. «A breakthrough in space» – Konstantin Vasilyevich...
remembered for his pro-Union activities of the late 1980s and early 1990s. NikolaiKamanin (1971). Letchiki i kosmonavty (Лётчики и космонавты). Moscow: Politizdat...
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Soviet Union
Colonel General