Cosmonauts learn to “survive” in forest

Survival training in the winter forest is usually falling to the most severe month of the year – February. Last year, he justified his reputation, stood strong frost. One of the conditional crews, spent the night in the forest, had to face sharp cooling.

“The temperature at night reached minus 25 degrees, but it was dry. We had the opportunity to sit at the open-air campfire and not be afraid that it would rain,” – a year ago I had an impressions of the astronaut Roscosmos Andrei Fedyaev.

This year, no cold, no rain fear, at least the first conditional crew. At the degrees – just below zero. However, it turns out that this weather can not be called comfortable for participants.

“Now it’s still relatively warm on the street. Physical work leads to the loss of moisture by the body. The guys will have to spend time and strength to dry out their equipment. In addition, they will have difficulty burning a fire, firewood is not dry enough. Yes, and maintain The fire will not quite simply. It is easiest to deal with the tasks at temperatures from 10 to 15 degrees of frost. These are optimal weather conditions, “said the head of the Extreme Size Preparation of Cosmonauts CPC Anatoly Zabruskov.

The first to trainers on the action of the crew when landing in a woody-swampy terrain of the winter began candidates for astronauts Arutyun Kiviryan, Alexander Kolyabin and Sergey Tetheratnikov. Almost two days they will spend in the forest. In anticipation of rescuers, it is necessary to find a suitable place for an improvised camp, clear the territory, collecting firewood, ignite the fire, to build two types of shelter: Chaolars and Wigwam. Candidates for astronauts must maintain communication with rescuers: to report on their location, feed signals. Mandatory part of the test – First aid victim.

Alexander Kolyabin, Sergey Tetheratnikov and Harutyun Kiviryan were a course of theoretical and practical preparation for testing in the forest. How successful they will cope with the tasks assigned their mentors at the end of the workout. Special demand – with Harutyun Kiviryan, the crew commander is set a separate rating, determining how correctly and effectively he managed the wards. By the way, for the period of general-quality training, each of the candidates for astronauts will try on the role of the crew commander on such training in various climatogeographic zones.

Next for candidates for astronauts on survival skills in the forest should demonstrate two more conditional crews, where they plan to include the astronauts of Roscosmos and NASA astronauts. The cycle of training will be completed on February 10. They are held in order to prepare cosmonauts to a possible abnormal situation associated with landing of the descent apparatus in a similar area with similar weather conditions.

/Media reports.