births
September 27, 1918
Konstantin Gerchik, Soviet military leader (died 2001)
Konstantin Gerchik
Konstantin Vasilyevich Gerchik was a Russian military officer who served in the Red Army and a program manager in former Soviet space program. He was Colonel-General of the Soviet Army, Professor of the Academy of Military Sciences of Russia, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, and the second head of the Baikonur Cosmodrome (1958–1961).