Many foreigners associate Russia with space. But in our country the word cosmos is primarily associated with the surname Korolev.
Sergei Pavlovich was born in January 1907, in the city of Zhitomir. His father, Pavel Yakovlevich, was a simple teacher; he taught Russian literature at school. Mother Maria Nikolaevna Moskalenko was also a teacher.
As a child, Sergei differed from his peers in his passion for technology. This thrust was not without talent. And passion multiplied by talent always yields great results.
This is what happened with Korolev. At the age of 17, he developed a design for his first aircraft - a non-motorized aircraft.
In 1924, Sergei Korolev entered the Kiev Polytechnic Institute at the Faculty of Aviation Engineering. In two years of study, I mastered all general engineering subjects. In 1926, he moved to Moscow and continued his studies at the Moscow Higher Technical School - Moscow Higher Technical School.
During his studies, Sergei Pavlovich established himself as a talented designer. He built a number of aircraft: “Koktebel”, “Red Star”, as well as the SK-4 aircraft.
These models were interesting from a design point of view. In the fall of 1931, Korolev and Zander created, with permission from above, a study group jet propulsion. A year later, this group became a de facto state laboratory engaged in the development of rocket and aircraft.
In 1933, the Jet Research Institute was founded, with Kleimenov becoming its director. Sergei Pavlovich became his deputy. Korolev's fate was difficult.
In 1938, he went to prison on trumped-up charges. Two years later, the state still needed his services. While in prison, he took a large part in the creation of TU-2.
In 1946, Sergei Pavlovich was appointed chief designer of ballistic missiles. He quickly developed several generations of ballistic missiles, which are characteristically better side differed from their counterparts.
The next step in his life was the development of a launch vehicle for atomic warheads. Again, he coped with this task brilliantly. In 1956, the first Russian-made missile with a nuclear warhead was put into service. In the future, developments in this direction did not stop and Korolev managed to create several modifications.
Soon the USSR began a space exploration program. And this could not have happened without his knowledge and skills. Sergei Pavlovich created the first manned aircraft in world history spaceship. The name of the ship is “Vostok”.
On this ship, a man flew into space for the first time. And this man was Yuri Gagarin. Under the leadership of Korolev, the space program continues to develop, following Gagarin, Titov, Nikolaev, Popovich, Bykovsky, Tereshkova, Leonov fly into space.
The rapid development of cosmonautics in the USSR does not end only with the development of manned spacecraft. Korolev creates several drones with scientific purposes.
Satellites are launched into space to study the Earth's radiation belts. Telecommunications and radio broadcasting satellites are also launched into space.
Sergei Pavlovich was seriously ill and died in early 1966. Korolev is a great Russian scientist, his contribution to the development of the Cosmos can hardly be overestimated. Thanks to its scientific activity, is known not only in Russia, but also abroad.
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev- brilliant scientist, physicist, engineer, designer. He achieved great results in the field of practical astronautics and the production of rocket and space technology.
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Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was born January 12, 1907 year in Zhitomir. His father is Pavel Yakovlevich Korolev, a teacher of Russian literature. Mother - Maria Nikolaevna Moskalenko, daughter of a Nezhin merchant.
When he was 3 years old, his mother left the family, and he was sent to the city of Nizhyn to his grandparents. Sergei Pavlovich studied in Kyiv, then in Odessa.
It was in Odessa that he met the pilots of the local squadron and spent a lot of time in their company, being interested in the intricacies of their craft. They showed the smart young man what an airplane consists of, how it flies, was allowed to sit at the helm of the aircraft and was told: in order to become a pilot, one must study well.
Study and first job
Sergei Korolev immediately learned the last advice and continued his studies after school. He entered the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. However, the training program there did not quite suit him, and therefore he transferred to Higher Technical School in Moscow.
After graduating from college, Korolev was sent to work in Central Aerodynamic Institute. During this period, he studied the works of Tsiolkovsky “Jet Airplane”.
Impressed by what he read, he changed jobs: in 1933 Korolev took a job at the new Jet Research Institute. He became deputy head of the institute for scientific work. Then he was 26 years old, and he made grandiose plans for the future.
The young designer and scientist believed that the future of all aviation was jet engines and jet technology.
Arrest and continuation of scientific activity
In 1938 in the USSR there was a massive purge: they were looking for spies, enemies of the people. Many scientists, designers, engineers suffered. Korolev was also arrested and sentenced by 10 years in labor camps in Kolyma.
At the request of the scientists who remained at large, he was transferred to the designer's group Tupolev create the Tu-2 aircraft. While working in the Sharashka, he continued to dream of jet-powered aircraft.
Trip to Germany
From his conclusion unexpectedly released in 1944, and in the 45th as a specialist in the field of jet rocket science was sent to Germany. There he collected military documentation of German scientists who created the famous rockets V-1 and V-2.
From Germany, Korolev was sent to Podlipki near Moscow, where he formed research and production center for the production of liquid fuel rockets. He was appointed chief designer of ballistic missiles. A new stage of his life began.
New stage
In 1947 Korolev was invited to the Kremlin to report to Stalin on the development of a ballistic missile. He reported, but there was no reaction. And no changes occurred. Changes came after Stalin's death, when the country's new leadership attracted talented scientists and engineers to create new missile weapons and space exploration.
First launch into space
In 1954, Korolev completed work on a missile with a nuclear warhead and began creating an intercontinental missile. In October 1957, a rocket carrying the first artificial satellite took off into the sky..
In 1959, three spacecraft took turns heading towards the Moon. The first and second brought a pennant depicting the coat of arms of the USSR to the surface of the Moon, and the third took photographs reverse side Moons. On April 12, 1961, the world's first manned space flight took place., and on March 18, 1965, man first went into open space.
Korolev was so passionate about his work that he literally spent days and nights in laboratories, test sites, and the cosmodrome. He did not take into account himself, with time, with the work team - he lived by his favorite work and devoted himself completely to it.
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev planned to create a new ship, in the compartment of which cosmonauts could stay without spacesuits, and thought about docking two ships in space. But his heart could not withstand the excessive stress and on January 14, 1966 he died of heart failure.
The personal life of the outstanding Soviet design engineer, the main organizer of rocket and space technology and rocket weapons, the founder of the Russian cosmonautics cannot be called calm and cloudless, and in many ways the reason lay in his character.
Sergei Korolev's first wife, Ksenia Vincentini, was his first youthful love. Ksenia always had many admirers, and in order to win her favor, Sergei was ready to do the most reckless things - he even did a handstand on the roof of the Odessa morgue.
Such exploits did not leave the young girl indifferent, and she began dating him. Before going to study at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Sergei Pavlovich proposed to Ksenia, but she refused to marry him because she decided that she must first get an education and become an independent person.
After graduating from the Kharkov Medical Institute, Ksenia Vincentini was assigned to the Donbass, where Korolev came more than once from Moscow, where he was studying at the Moscow Higher Technical School at that time. However, getting consent to marriage turned out to be not so easy - Ksenia did not see the point of getting married and then living separately for several years. However, Sergei, not accustomed to retreating from difficulties, ensured that the girl was released early, and in the summer of thirty-one she became the wife of Sergei Korolev, and they left for Moscow together.
In the photo - Sergei Korolev with his first wife and daughter
But family life did not please his wife - Korolev, who had been trying to ensure that Ksenia Vincentini became his wife for seven whole years, quickly lost interest in her and other women began to appear in his biography.
The wife suspected her husband’s infidelity and more than once found evidence of this, but remained his wife for seventeen years, of which they were destined to live together for no more than eight - in 1938, Korolev was arrested on charges of sabotage, and he spent several years in the camps .
After seventeen years of marriage, Korolev’s wife wrote a letter to his mother, in which she said that she had decided to leave her husband in order to let him live the way he wanted. The daughter of Sergei Korolev and Ksenia Vincentini, Natalya, who learned about her father’s infidelities at the age of twelve, took it very painfully and was able to forgive only when she herself became an adult woman. She didn’t understand why her two most beloved people treated each other this way, and her father, who had sought her mother’s favor for so long, suddenly changed a lot.
In the photo - Natalya Sergeevna, daughter of Korolev, with her mother
When Sergei Pavlovich was in the camp, and he managed to forward letters to his wife, they were filled with love, tenderness and hope for their happy future, but after returning home, the family life of Korolev and Ksenia did not work out. Natalya Sergeevna did not maintain a warm filial relationship with Sergei Pavlovich, and when she got married she did not even invite him to the wedding. Korolev was very worried that he and his daughter were like strangers and almost never saw each other.
When her daughter Korolev herself became an adult, she explained the separation of her parents by saying that they were strong personalities and it was difficult for them to get along with each other. After many years, Natalya Sergeevna was able to find the strength within herself and take a step to get closer to her father. She called him first, and when he arrived, she told him how much she loved him.
The second wife of Sergei Korolev was the translator Nina Ivanovna. When they met, Sergei Pavlovich was forty, and she was twenty-seven years old. At first she simply came to him to translate articles from English and American magazines, and then she felt that Korolev began to show her signs of attention. Then he was still married to Ksenia Maximilianovna, but this did not stop him. A romance began between the young translator and Korolev, which ended in a wedding. The news that he was leaving the family was a terrible blow for everyone, but, having recovered from this blow, his first wife told her daughter only good things about her father.
In the photo - Korolev with his second wife
Nina Ivanovna completely devoted herself to Korolev, left work and always waited for him at home, but he did not get out of endless business trips and was constantly busy at work. They had no children, and Natalya became the only daughter of the great designer. Later, her relationship with her father was restored, and she began to visit him often with her husband and son Andrei. Her relationship with her father’s second wife, Nina Ivanovna, also improved.
Exactly 50 years ago, on January 14, 1966, the outstanding Soviet scientist, designer and founder of practical cosmonautics Sergei Pavlovich Korolev passed away. This outstanding domestic figure will forever be remembered as the creator of Soviet rocket and space technology, who helped ensure strategic parity and turned the Soviet Union into an advanced rocket and space power, becoming one of the key figures in human space exploration. It was under the direct leadership of Korolev and on his initiative that the first artificial Earth satellite and the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin were launched. Today in Russia there is a city that was named after an outstanding scientist.
Sergei Korolev was a man of amazing destiny. He could have crashed on the glider, but he didn’t. He could well have been shot as an “enemy of the people,” but he was sentenced to prison. He could have died in the camps, but he survived. He was supposed to drown on a ship in the Pacific Ocean, but he was late for the ship, which crashed 5 days later. This great scientist survived to literally go through hardships to the stars and be the first to take humanity into space. There was probably no other person on the planet who loved the sky so much and devotedly.
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was born on January 12, 1907 (December 30, 1906, old style) in the city of Zhitomir in the family of a teacher of Russian literature, Pavel Yakovlevich Korolev, and the daughter of a Nezhin merchant, Maria Nikolaevna Moskalenko. He was three years old when the family broke up, and by his mother’s decision he was sent to be raised by his grandparents in Nizhyn, where Sergei lived until 1915. In 1916, his mother remarried and, together with her son and new husband Georgy Mikhailovich Balanin, moved to Odessa. In 1917, the future scientist entered the gymnasium, which he did not have time to graduate due to the outbreak of the revolution. The gymnasium was closed, and for 4 months he studied at a unified labor school, and then received education at home. He studied independently according to the gymnasium program with the help of his stepfather and mother, who were both teachers, and his stepfather, in addition to pedagogy, also had an engineering education.
While still studying at school, Sergei Korolev was distinguished by his exceptional abilities and great desire for aviation technology, which was new for that time. When a seaplane detachment was formed in Odessa in 1921, the future rocket designer became seriously interested in aeronautics. He made acquaintance with members of this detachment and made his first flights on a seaplane, deciding to become a pilot. At the same time, his passion for the sky was interspersed with his work in the school production workshop, where the future designer learned to work on a lathe; he turned out parts of very complex shapes and configurations. This "carpentry" school was very useful to him in the future when he began to build his own gliders.
At the same time, the future rocket designer did not manage to obtain a secondary education immediately; he did not have the conditions for this. Only in 1922 was a construction and trade school opened in Odessa, where the best teachers at that time taught. 15-year-old Sergei entered it. Korolev’s naturally excellent memory allowed him to memorize entire pages of text. The future designer studied very diligently, one might say, enthusiastically. His class teacher told his mother about him: “A guy with a king in his head.” He studied at a construction vocational school from 1922 to 1924, simultaneously studying in many circles and taking various courses.
In 1923, the government appealed to the people to create their own Air Fleet in the country. In Ukraine, the Aviation and Aeronautics Society of Ukraine and Crimea (OAVUK) was formed. Sergei Korolev immediately became a member of this society and began to study intensively in one of its gliding circles. In the circle, he even gave lectures on gliding to the workers. Korolev acquired knowledge on the history of aviation and gliding on his own by reading specialized literature, including a book on German. Already at the age of 17 he developed a design for an aircraft original design, "non-motorized aircraft K-5".
In 1924, Sergei Korolev entered the Kiev Polytechnic Institute majoring in aviation technology; in just 2 years he mastered general engineering disciplines and became a real glider athlete. In the fall of 1926, Korolev transferred to the Moscow Higher Technical School (MVTU) named after Bauman, where he studied at the aeromechanical faculty. The young student always studied with his characteristic diligence; he spent a lot of time studying on his own, visiting the technical library. Particularly popular in those years were the lectures of the young 35-year-old aircraft designer Tupolev, who gave an introductory course on aircraft construction to students. Even then, Tupolev noticed Sergei’s outstanding abilities and subsequently considered Korolev one of his best students.
While studying in Moscow, Sergei Korolev was already quite well known as a young and promising aircraft designer and an experienced glider pilot. Starting from the 4th year, he combined study and work at the design bureau. From 1927 to 1930 he took part in the All-Union gliding competitions, which took place in the Crimea near Koktebel. Here Korolev flew himself and also presented models of his gliders, including the SK-1 “Koktebel” and SK-3 “Red Star”.
His meeting with Tsiolkovsky, which took place in Kaluga in 1929 on the road from Odessa to Moscow, had a huge impact on the life of Sergei Korolev. This meeting predetermined the future life path of the scientist and designer. The conversation with Konstantin Eduardovich made an indelible impression on the young specialist. “Tsiolkovsky shocked me then with his unshakable faith in the possibility of space travel,” the designer recalled many years later, “I left him with one single thought: to build rockets and fly on them. The whole meaning of life for me became one thing - to reach the stars.”
In 1930, he began working at the Central Design Bureau of the Menzhinsky Plant, and from March of the following year he became a senior flight test engineer at the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI). In the same 1931, he took part in the organization of the GIRD - Group for the Study of Jet Propulsion, which he would head in 1932. Under the leadership of Sergei Korolev, the first launches of Soviet rockets were carried out using the GIRD-9 hybrid engine, which took place in August 1933, as well as using GIRD-X liquid fuel in November of the same year. After the merger of the Leningrad Gas Dynamic Laboratory (GDL) and the Moscow GIRD took place at the end of 1933 and the Jet Research Institute (RNII) was created, Sergei Korolev was appointed its deputy director for scientific affairs, and starting in 1934, he became the head rocket aircraft department.
In 1934, Sergei Korolev’s first printed work was published, which was called “Rocket Flight in the Stratosphere.” Already in this book, the designer warned that the rocket was very serious. He also sent a sample of the book to Tsiolkovsky, who called the book informative, reasonable and useful. Even then, Korolev dreamed of working as closely as possible on the construction of a rocket plane, but his plans were not destined to come true then. In the fall of 1937, the wave of repressions that swept the Soviet Union reached the RNII.
Korolev was arrested on false charges on June 27, 1938. On September 25, he was included in the list of persons subject to trial by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR. On the list he was in the first category, which meant: the punishment recommended by the NKVD authorities was execution. The list was approved personally by Stalin, so the verdict could be considered practically confirmed. However, Korolev was “lucky”; he was sentenced to 10 years in the camps. Before that, he spent a year in Butyrka prison. According to some reports, the future space conqueror was subjected to serious torture and beatings, as a result of which his jaw was broken. The designer arrived in Kolyma on April 21, 1939, where he worked at the Maldyak gold mine of the Western Mining Directorate, while the rocket engine designer was busy at “ general works" On December 2, 1939, Korolev was sent to Vladlag.
Only on March 2, 1940, he again found himself in Moscow, was tried again, this time he was sentenced to 8 years in the camps, sent to a new place of imprisonment - to the Moscow special prison of the NKVD TsKB-29, in which, under the leadership of his teacher Tupolev, he took part in the development of the Tu-2 and Pe-2 bombers, while at the same time initiating work on the creation of a guided aerial torpedo and a new version of the missile interceptor fighter. These works became the reason for his transfer in 1942 to another design bureau, but also of a prison type - OKB-16, which worked in Kazan at aircraft plant No. 16. Here work was carried out on the creation of new types of rocket engines, which were later planned to be used in the aviation industry. After the start of the war, Korolev asked to be sent as a pilot to the front, but Tupolev, who by that time had already gotten to know and appreciated him well, did not let him go, saying: “Who will build the planes?”
Sergei Pavlovich was released early only in July 1944 on the personal instructions of Stalin, after which he continued to work in Kazan for another year. A major specialist in the field of aviation equipment, L. L. Kerber, who worked at TsKB-29, noted that Korolev was a cynic, a skeptic and a pessimist and looked rather gloomily into the future, attributing to the designer the phrase “They will slam without an obituary.” At the same time, there is a statement by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who noted that Korolev was never embittered and never complained, never gave up, never cursed or scolded anyone. The designer simply did not have time for this; he understood perfectly well that anger would not cause a creative impulse in him, but only his oppression.
After the end of the Great Patriotic War, in the second half of 1945, Sergei Korolev, as part of a group of specialists, was sent to Germany on a business trip, where he studied German technology. Of particular interest to him was, of course, the German V-2 (V-2) rocket. In August 1946, the designer began work in Kaliningrad near Moscow, where he became the chief designer of long-range missiles and the head of department No. 3 at NII-88 for their development.
The first task that the government set for Korolev as the chief designer and all organizations involved in missile weapons at that time was the development of a Soviet analogue of the German V-2 rocket from domestic materials. At the same time, already in 1947, a new government decree appeared on the creation of new ballistic missiles with a greater flight range than the V-2 - up to 3 thousand km. In 1948, Korolev conducted flight design tests of the first Soviet ballistic missile R-1 (analogous to the V-2) and in 1950 put the missile into service. Over the next few years, he works on various modifications of this rocket. In just one year, 1954, he completed work on the R-5 rocket, outlining five of its possible modifications. Work was also completed on the R-5M missile equipped with a nuclear warhead. In addition, he worked on the R-11 missile and its naval version, and his future R-7 intercontinental missile was becoming increasingly clear.
Work on the R-7 intercontinental two-stage rocket was completed in 1956. It was a missile with a flight range of 8 thousand kilometers and a detachable warhead weighing up to 3 tons. The rocket, created under the direct supervision of Sergei Pavlovich, was successfully tested in 1957 at test site No. 5, specially built for this purpose, located in the Kazakh steppe (today it is the Baikonur Cosmodrome). A modification of this R-7A missile, which had a launch range increased to 11 thousand kilometers, was in service with the Strategic Missile Forces of the Soviet Union from 1960 to 1968. It is also worth noting the fact that in 1957, Korolev created the first ballistic missiles using stable fuel components (mobile ground and sea based); the designer became a real pioneer in these new and very important areas of missile development.
On October 4, 1957, a rocket designed by Sergei Korolev launched the first artificial satellite in history into earth orbit. From this day on, the era of practical cosmonautics began, and Korolev became the father of this era. Initially, only animals were sent into space, but already on April 12, 1961, the designer, together with his colleagues and like-minded people, successfully launched the Vostok-1 spacecraft, on board which was the first cosmonaut of the planet, Yuri Gagarin. With this flight, which would not have happened without Korolev, the era of manned astronautics begins.
Also, since 1959, Sergei Korolev has been in charge of the lunar exploration program. As part of this program, several spacecraft were sent to the Earth's natural satellite, including soft-landing vehicles. When designing a vehicle to land on the lunar surface, there was a lot of controversy about what it was. The generally accepted hypothesis at the time, put forward by astronomer Thomas Gold, was that the Moon was covered in a thick layer of dust due to micrometeor bombardment. But Korolev, who was familiar with another hypothesis - that of the Soviet volcanologist Heinrich Steinberg, ordered that the lunar surface be considered solid. He was proven right in 1966, when he landed on the Moon. soft landing Soviet device "Luna-9".
One more interesting story From the life of the great scientist and designer there was an episode with the preparation of an automatic station to be sent to one of the planets of the solar system. When creating it, the designers encountered a problem excess weight research equipment on board the station. Sergei Korolev studied the station’s drawings, after which he checked the device, which was supposed to transmit information to Earth about the presence or absence of organic life on the planet. He took the device to a scorched Kazakh region not far from the cosmodrome and the device transmitted a radio signal that there was no life on Earth, which was the reason for excluding this unnecessary equipment from the station’s equipment.
During the life of the great designer, 10 cosmonauts managed to travel into space on spaceships of his design, in addition to Gagarin, a man went into outer space (this was done by Alexei Leonov on March 18, 1965). Under the direct leadership of Sergei Korolev, the first space complex, many geophysical and ballistic missiles were created in the USSR, and the world's first intercontinental missiles were launched. ballistic missile, launch vehicle "Vostok" and its modifications, artificial Earth satellite, flights of the spacecraft "Vostok" and "Voskhod" were carried out, the first spacecraft of the "Luna", "Venera", "Mars", "Zond" series were developed, spacecraft was developed Soyuz ship.
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev passed away quite early - on January 14, 1966 at the age of only 59 years. Apparently, the designer’s health was nevertheless undermined in Kolyma and the unfair accusation (in 1957 he was completely rehabilitated) left its mark on his health. By this time, Korolev had already done a lot to fulfill his dream of conquering space, he put it into practice. But some projects, for example the USSR lunar program, turned out to be unrealized. The lunar project was abandoned after the death of the outstanding designer.
In 1966, the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union established gold medal“For outstanding services in the field of rocket and space technology” named after Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. Monuments to him were erected in Zhitomir, Moscow and Baikonur. The memory of the designer was immortalized by a large number of streets named in his honor, as well as a memorial house-museum. In 1996, the city of Kaliningrad near Moscow was renamed the Korolev science city in honor of the outstanding rocketry designer who worked here. A pass in the Tien Shan, a large lunar crater and an asteroid were also named in his honor. So the name of Sergei Korolev continues to live not only on Earth, but also in space.
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A restaurant has opened in Japan that cooks human meat. The country recently officially joined the ranks of countries where cannibalism is allowed.
The country's first restaurant has opened in the capital of Japan, Tokyo, where you can try dishes made from human meat. It is known that eating people in the land of cherry blossoms is officially permitted.
Dishes made from human flesh are not cheap by financial standards; the price for an unusual “delicacy” for one can range from 100 to 1000 euros. Representatives of the restaurant, whose name is translated into Russian as “Edible Brother,” said that the food is prepared from the meat of a deceased person who, before his death, agreed to such a procedure.
The chef of the Tokyo establishment, of course, will not reveal all the culinary subtleties to anyone, but it is known that the meat goes through a special medical treatment, which brings its quality to consumer standards. Also, representatives of “Edible Brother” noted that after the entire process of preparing the product for consumption, it taste qualities increase several times.
The inhabitants of the Congo also love to feast on their brothers on the planet. The peak of cannibalism in this country occurred in the late 90s and early 2000s. The last act of eating a person was recorded in 2012, that is, not so long ago. It is noteworthy that the inhabitants of the Congo are confident that eating the heart of an enemy will bring courage and vitality to a person.
They also ate people in western Africa. A group of cannibals called “Leopard” hunted their enemies in animal skins and with animal fangs. Gnawed human remains stopped being found in these places only in the late 80s.
Cannibalism still flourishes in Brazil. It all started with the Wari tribe in the 1960s. Representatives of this nation ate the bodies of dead pious sages. However, subsequently, due to the prohibitive level of poverty of the local population, ordinary people, not distinguished by special piety. But killing a person for food is not always associated only with hunger. Some of the lovers of human flesh say that before attacking the victim, voices sound in their heads that order them to eat this or that fellow tribesman.
Surprisingly, in the 21st century people are also eaten in Papua New Guinea. The Korowai tribe regularly eat dishes made from human flesh in order to protect themselves from the consequences of the influence of sorcerers. It is known that when someone among a nation suddenly dies for no apparent reason, the tribesmen eat the deceased because they are sure that an evil sorcerer killed him. Korowai are also famous for eating a white man who was the son of the governor of New York City in 1961. A young man named Michael Rockefeller went to study the people, but never returned from the expedition.
Residents of Cambodia also love dishes made from non-traditional meat for the majority of the world's population. It is known that during the times of active hostilities in Southeast Asia in the 1960-1970s, cannibalism actively flourished. The Cambodian military believed that eating the enemy's liver would give them strength and courage to the dead man.
In India, the Aghori religious sect, whose representatives live in cemeteries, considers human meat the best elixir of youth. The sectarians eat those who bequeathed their bodies to them after death, and make jewelry from human bones and skulls. It is also known that Aghori willingly feast on corpses caught from the sacred Ganges River.
