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Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (Серге́й Па́влович Королёв) (January 12, 1907 - January 14, 1966) was the head Soviet rocket engineer and designer, known only as "the chief designer" during his lifetime. He was born in Zhytomyr, Imperial Russia (now Ukraine) to Russian mother and father.Sergei Korolev and Friedrich Zander launched the first Soviet liquid-fueled rocket in 1933. He was arrested on falsified charges of disloyalty on June 27, 1938 and sentenced for 10 years of imprisonment. After two years of prison, he continued to serve a term in a Kolyma labor camp before being allowed to pursue rocketry in a kind of penitentiary extablishment for engineering resears known as sharashka. He was released on July 27, 1944 and rehabilitated in 1957. Korolev's life and work was covered by tight secrecy until his very death. He used to sign his articles by "K. Sergeyev".
Korolev began work with the Soviet space program which started off with building an exact copy of the German V-2 rocket, designated as the R-1 rocket by the Soviets. He then progressed to designing the R-7, the first ICBM, designed to lob a 5,000 kg nuclear bomb on the United States. Korolev oversaw numerous firsts of space exploration: the first satellite, the first animals and people in space, the first EVA, and the first craft on the moon and Venus, Luna 2 and Venera 3.
Korolev's huge N1 rocket was designed to go to the moon, but Korolev died before the first test during an operation to remove a cancerous tumor.
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