Oleksandr Galunenko: the first pilot of Mriya

Chernihiv TV, 2012. The Army Kitchen program is a joint project of the regional TV channel Siver-Center and the regional media center of the Ministry of Defense. Hosted by Natalia Rudenko and Oleksandr Stupun.

In the episode: training of the 101st Security Brigade of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; Conscripts' Day in Mykhailo-Kotsiubynske; results of the competition “My Step to Space Stars” in Chernihiv Lyceum with enhanced military and physical training; send-off to the army in Kovpyta village; regional recruitment campaign; the story of Oleksandr Halunenko - Hero of Ukraine, Honored Test Pilot of the USSR; military law enforcement service.

Reference: Oleksandr Halunenko is a test pilot at the Antonov Aviation Research and Development Complex, Assistant General Designer for Flight Issues, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Hero of Ukraine (awarded the Order of the Golden Star No. 1).

He was the first pilot to fly Mriya. For setting 110 world aviation records in one flight on the AN-225 Mriya, Oleksandr Halunenko's name was entered in the Guinness Book of Records. In total, during his career, the pilot set 263 world records, 234 of them on the AN-225.