Running Start Sergey Korolev Soviet Space EngineerOriginal vintage Soviet movie poster for a biographical drama film Running Start Hoovott directed by Gennady Glagolev and starring Vladimir Baranov as Sergei Korolev (1906 1966), the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer who invented the R 7 Rocket and Sputnik 1, worked on the launch of Sputnik 3, and contributed to Yuri Gagarin's flight into space and Alexei Leonov's spacewalk during the Cold War era Space Race between the USA and the