Published on: 2026-04-12
Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian –
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Saint Petersburg, April 12 /Sinnua/ — Events dedicated to Cosmonautics Day and the 65th anniversary of the flight around the Earth of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin took place on Sunday in Saint Petersburg.
On this day, exhibitions, contests, lectures, and concerts were held in the city. At the V.P. Glushko Museum of Cosmonautics and Rocket Technology on the territory of the Petropavlovsk Fortress, an exhibition called “Innovation Day” was opened — a joint project of the museum and the A.F. Mozhaysky Military Space Academy. Lectures were organized for visitors, and children were able to participate in master classes.
In the historical park “Russia – My History,” until April 19, there is an ongoing exhibition “Constellation of Cosmonauts,” which tells about the conquerors of space. And in the Moscow district of the city, they organized the launch of hundreds of miniature flying devices. The models were created by schoolchildren and students. Light paper rockets flew tens of meters above the ground.
Governor of Saint Petersburg Alexander Beglov congratulated the citizens on the holiday. “65 years ago, the Soviet Union opened an era of manned space exploration to humanity. The whole world marveled at the courage of Yuri Gagarin — the first man to have been in space, who boldly stepped into the future,” emphasized A. Beglov.
According to him, the city on the Neva stood at the origins of the space age: the research conducted in Leningrad opened the way to the creation of rocket engines and the first flights into space. Today, many St. Petersburg scientific organizations and enterprises are flagships of Russia’s space industry. “Petersburg remains the most important center for the creation of the latest technology and the training of specialists,” the governor noted.
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