Exhibitions, film screenings and meetings with cosmonauts began in the Murmansk Regional Scientific Library within the framework of the thematic week “It’s time to go to space,” the press service of the government of the Murmansk region reported on April 9. .
The central event of the series of events will be a meeting with Andrei Borisenko, cosmonaut pilot and hero of the Russian Federation, which will take place at the SOPKI 21A Center for Contemporary Art. He made his first space flight in April 2011 as a flight engineer on the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft, along with Alexander Samokutyaev and NASA astronaut Ronald Garan. Andrei Ivanovich made his second flight in October 2016 as a flight engineer on the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft, together with Sergei Ryzhikov and NASA astronaut Robert Kimbrough. The total duration of the two space flights was 337 days 8 hours 56 minutes.
In addition, until April 21, in the SOPKI 21A space there is the exhibition “Space: The Elusive”, prepared by regional science specialists. The goal of the exhibition is to immerse you in an extraterrestrial atmosphere, as well as remind you how unusual and magical the world we live in is. The exhibition space of the Contemporary Art Center presents thematic paintings and art objects with audiovisual accompaniment.
Let us remember that Cosmonautics Day is a date celebrated first in the USSR, and then in Russia and other countries in the post-Soviet space on April 12, established to commemorate the first human flight into space.
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Vostok-1 spacecraft and made an orbital flight around planet Earth for the first time in the world. The flight into near-Earth space lasted 108 minutes. At the place of his landing in the Saratov region, the Park of Space Conquerors named after Yuri Gagarin was created.
On the same day, World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day is celebrated, in accordance with the protocol (clause 17) of the 61st General Conference of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, held in November 1968, and the decision of the Council of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, adopted on April 30, 1969, at the proposal of the Aviation Sports Federation of the USSR.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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