Read and translate the text. I can't say that I have concerned myself much with science and scientists in our country

I can't say that I have concerned myself much with science and scientists in our country. But being an educated person I can't help reading or watching on TV about the most outstanding discoveries in different branches of science.

Great progress has been achieved by our scientists in nuclear physics, chemistry, biology, etc. They have made a great contribution to the world science for the benefit of their country. Such names as V. Vernadsky, B. Paton, M. Sklifosofsky and a lot of others are very much familiar to us. There is another name worth mentioning. It's Academician Korolyov. Serhiy Paviovich Korolyov is the famous scientist and designer of space-rocket systems. He was born in the city of Zhytomir in the family of a teacher. Many people regard him as a representative of the Russian people. However, S. Korolyov is a Ukrainian.

He is known to be an outstanding creator of the practical space engineering. From 1927 he worked in the aircraft industry. In 1930, without giving up his job, he graduated from the Moscow Bauman Higher Technical School and left a flying school in Zhytomir the same year. After he had met Tsiolkovsky and studied his ideas, Korolyov became a rocket enthusiast. He was one of the founders of modern space-rocketry engineering. Korolyov trained many scientists and engineers who are now leading the work in research institutes and designing bureaus which specialize in the sphere of space- rocketry engineering.

In 1933 the first experimental rockets were made and tested. Korolyov took part in the work. Beginning with 1957 the first Earth satellites in the world were put into orbit with the help of the systems he had designed. The spaceship, in which man first flew into space, was made under his guidance. Serhiy Korolyov is one of the most outstanding Ukrainians whose name will go down in history of the world civilization.