When Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched to the Mir station in May 1991 from Baikonur in the Kazakh SSR, he was a citizen of the Soviet Union, and when he finally landed 311 days later the country that sent him had dissolved, his home city of Leningrad had been renamed St Petersburg, and his monthly pay was worth almost nothing
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This month, the August coup marks the 35th anniversary. The event not only sealed the end of a world power that had long been away from socialism, but also set the course for a new world order. On 19 August 1991, Gennadi Janaiev – until then Vice President of the USSR – turned to the Soviet people and announced that he would take over the office, as President Mikhail Gorbachev was allegedly no longer in a position to do so for health reasons. In…
When Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched to the Mir station in May 1991 from Baikonur in the Kazakh SSR, he was a citizen of the Soviet Union, and when he finally landed 311 days later the country that sent him had dissolved, his home city of Leningrad had been renamed St Petersburg, and his monthly pay was worth almost nothing
On 18 May 1991, a Soyuz TM-12 rocket lifted off from the steppe at Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying a 32-year-old flight engineer named Sergei Krikalev to the Soviet space station Mir. The rocket burned Soviet fuel, the launch pad sat on Soviet soil in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and the flight controllers spoke to Krikalev in the language of a country that had existed for 69 years. Ten months later, when he came home, none of those things…
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