Книга известного журналиста Ярослава Голованова посвящена родоначальнику отечественной практической космонавтики Сергею Павловичу Королеву. Это наиболее полная биография некогда засекреченного легендарного Главного конструктора. Автор работал над книгой до последних дней своей жизни. В нее вошли многочисленные свидетельства близких, соратников, родных С.П.Королева, неопубликованные документы и уникальные, ранее не публиковавшиеся фотографии.
Yaroslav Kirillovich Golovanov - Soviet and Russian journalist, writer and popularizer of science. Author of 20 books, over 1200 newspaper and 160 magazine articles. Winner of two highest journalistic awards "Golden Pen". Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR (1982). Father V. Ya. Golovanov.
Y. K. Golovanov was born on June 2, 1932 in Moscow into an artistic family. Grandfather - N. N. Golovanov - translator of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy from Italian into Russian. Father, K.N. Golovanov was the founder and first director of the Moscow Traveling Theater of Drama and Comedy (Theater of Transport, now the Moscow Drama Theater named after N.V. Gogol), worked in the management of theaters of the Committee for Arts under the SNK of the RSFSR, was one of the leaders of the Central House of Culture of Railwaymen. Mother Anfisa Vasilievna Golovanova (nee Kozlova) under the pseudonym Andreeva was the leading actress of the Transport Theater. In 1941 he was evacuated with his family to Omsk, in 1943 he returned to Moscow.
1950 - graduated from high school in Moscow. 1956 - graduated from the rocket department of the Moscow State Technical University. N.E.Bauman. The diploma project (calculation of a liquid-propellant engine with a thrust of 100 tons) was carried out under the leadership of A.P. Vanichev. According to the distribution, he was sent to the Research Institute-1 of the Ministry of Aviation Industry, but was assigned to the laboratory of G.I.Petrov not in his specialty, which was the reason for the search for other areas of activity. February 1958 - selected from a number of candidates for the position of literary employee of the science department of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", with which all his future journalistic and writing activities are connected. since 1960 - head of the information department since 1963 - traveling correspondent since 1966 - member of the editorial board of the newspaper since 1968 - newspaper columnist
For over 10 years he was a special correspondent for the newspaper at the Baikonur cosmodrome and at the MCC.
Ya.K. Golovanov died of a stroke on May 21, 2003 in Moscow.