Word: technicum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Education: After serving in the Red Army at 15, he entered the Leningrad Co-operative Technicum, later earned a degree at the Leningrad Textile Institute...
...Moscow. The young boy shone in the local school, and after completing the sixth grade, he was sent to manual training school in a Moscow suburb. He graduated as a molder, but never worked at this skilled trade; his record was good enough to get him into an "industrial technicum" (a sort of technical junior college) at Saratov on the Volga. While there, he learned to fly at the Saratov Aero Club and was admitted to the Soviet air force's cadet academy at Orenburg. He graduated with top honors in 1957 and married a pretty medical graduate, Valentina...