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Gagarin's native city to celebrate his 77th birthday anniversary
GAGARIN (Smolensk region), March 9 (Itar-Tass) -- The celebrations on
the occasion of the 77th birthday anniversary of the first world spaceman Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) will be held in his native city Gagarin (Gzhatsk) in the Smolensk Region.
Soviet space pilots headed by Alexei Leonov and Valentina Tereshkova
and other cosmonauts, as well as future spacemen will be among honorary guests of the celebrations. After a festive rally and a flower-laying ceremony to the Monument to Gagarin and to his mother Anna Timofeyevna future spacemen will traditionally go to the village of Klushino. The first world spaceman was born in this ancient Russian village, 23 kilometers northeast of the city of Gagarin. Future spacemen from the Star City arrive in the village to visit the Gagarin family museum before their maiden spaceflight. They believe that they will definitely be spacemen if they drink from 'Gagarin's well.' The guests will meet with various company staffs, visit educational establishments and will attend an opening ceremony of the all-Russian sambo competition in commemoration of Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin in the city of Gagarin. The Gagarin memorial museum will stage several exhibitions on the occasion of Gagarin's 77th birthday anniversary. An exhibition of the toy books called The Space at a Glance from a Muscovite Oleg Lobachev's private collection will be held at the museum.
The students from the children's artistic schools will show their
pieces of work at the photo exhibitions Along Gagarin's Path and The Space Through the Eyes of Children at the Gagarin house of culture. The Gagarin house of culture will be also a venue for a festive evening and an opening ceremony of the 38th international public and scientific readings on the occasion of Gagarin's birthday anniversary. A Soviet outstanding cosmonaut Alexei Leonov heads the organizing committee of the readings.
Representatives from major space research centers, the delegations form more than 20 Russian cities from Moscow to Novosibirsk and the guests from Belarus are expected to attend the readings.
The first readings dedicated to Gagarin were held on March 9, 1974.
The readings were first held as the meetings between the space pilots,
friends, teachers and relatives of Yuri Gagarin and Gagarin city
residents, who recalled about the first world spaceman. In 1994 the
readings turned into the format of the public and scientific readings.
A laser show, a concert of the Russian band Doc. Watson and festive
fireworks will highlight the Gagarin's 77th birthday anniversary
celebrations.
The 50th anniversary year of the first manned spaceflight by Yuri
Gagarin, who could turn 77 years on Wednesday, heightened a keen interest to this world legendary personality not only in Russia, but also in the whole world. Though this guy with a shining smile from the Smolensk Region paved the way to the stars for the humankind he did not suffer from the star fever. All Gagarin's friends in the first team of cosmonauts and all colleagues, who worked with him, recalled the first spaceman as a friendly, easy-going and honest man.
"We remember him as a sympathetic, responsible, zealous and friendly
man," a remarkable cosmonaut Georgy Grechko told Itar-Tass. These personal qualities predetermined the choice, which the chief of the Soviet space program Sergei Korolev had made in favour of Gagarin as the first world spaceman. "If another man were chosen it would be a mistake," a Soviet cosmonaut from the second space team Alexei Gubarev shared the opinion of all the space pioneers.
Gagarin's life is full of legends. The first legend is that the first
spaceman was born on March 8, but the maternity house believed that the boy cannot celebrate his birthday on the International Women's Day and registered his birthday on March 9. However, Gagarin showed himself as a true man in all his deeds and was "a forward-looking and victory-seeking man," a Soviet cosmonaut from the first space team Boris Volynov recalled.
Yuri Gagarin, who was born of a peasant family, was trained as a
pilot, but then turned into the first world spaceman, easily found a
common language with the British queen, who invited him for a tea party, Pavel Popovich recalled. Promoted to the deputy chief of the Cosmonaut
Training Center he avoided the authoritarian style of management and
always consulted with his colleagues.
All the world focused attention on the feat of the first world
spaceman Gagarin on the occasion of his 77th birthday anniversary. A
monument to the space pioneer will be unveiled in front of the monument to a British explorer and navigator Capt. James Cook in downtown London in the summer of 2011.
Maj. Gagarin flied around the Earth aboard the Vostok spaceship and
landed successfully in the Saratov Region on April 12, 1961. Yuri
Alexeyevich Gagarin and Vladimir Seregin died tragically in a training
flight on March 27, 1968. They crashed in a training combat fighter MiG-15 in the Vladimir Region.
the occasion of the 77th birthday anniversary of the first world spaceman Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) will be held in his native city Gagarin (Gzhatsk) in the Smolensk Region.
Soviet space pilots headed by Alexei Leonov and Valentina Tereshkova
and other cosmonauts, as well as future spacemen will be among honorary guests of the celebrations. After a festive rally and a flower-laying ceremony to the Monument to Gagarin and to his mother Anna Timofeyevna future spacemen will traditionally go to the village of Klushino. The first world spaceman was born in this ancient Russian village, 23 kilometers northeast of the city of Gagarin. Future spacemen from the Star City arrive in the village to visit the Gagarin family museum before their maiden spaceflight. They believe that they will definitely be spacemen if they drink from 'Gagarin's well.' The guests will meet with various company staffs, visit educational establishments and will attend an opening ceremony of the all-Russian sambo competition in commemoration of Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin in the city of Gagarin. The Gagarin memorial museum will stage several exhibitions on the occasion of Gagarin's 77th birthday anniversary. An exhibition of the toy books called The Space at a Glance from a Muscovite Oleg Lobachev's private collection will be held at the museum.
The students from the children's artistic schools will show their
pieces of work at the photo exhibitions Along Gagarin's Path and The Space Through the Eyes of Children at the Gagarin house of culture. The Gagarin house of culture will be also a venue for a festive evening and an opening ceremony of the 38th international public and scientific readings on the occasion of Gagarin's birthday anniversary. A Soviet outstanding cosmonaut Alexei Leonov heads the organizing committee of the readings.
Representatives from major space research centers, the delegations form more than 20 Russian cities from Moscow to Novosibirsk and the guests from Belarus are expected to attend the readings.
The first readings dedicated to Gagarin were held on March 9, 1974.
The readings were first held as the meetings between the space pilots,
friends, teachers and relatives of Yuri Gagarin and Gagarin city
residents, who recalled about the first world spaceman. In 1994 the
readings turned into the format of the public and scientific readings.
A laser show, a concert of the Russian band Doc. Watson and festive
fireworks will highlight the Gagarin's 77th birthday anniversary
celebrations.
The 50th anniversary year of the first manned spaceflight by Yuri
Gagarin, who could turn 77 years on Wednesday, heightened a keen interest to this world legendary personality not only in Russia, but also in the whole world. Though this guy with a shining smile from the Smolensk Region paved the way to the stars for the humankind he did not suffer from the star fever. All Gagarin's friends in the first team of cosmonauts and all colleagues, who worked with him, recalled the first spaceman as a friendly, easy-going and honest man.
"We remember him as a sympathetic, responsible, zealous and friendly
man," a remarkable cosmonaut Georgy Grechko told Itar-Tass. These personal qualities predetermined the choice, which the chief of the Soviet space program Sergei Korolev had made in favour of Gagarin as the first world spaceman. "If another man were chosen it would be a mistake," a Soviet cosmonaut from the second space team Alexei Gubarev shared the opinion of all the space pioneers.
Gagarin's life is full of legends. The first legend is that the first
spaceman was born on March 8, but the maternity house believed that the boy cannot celebrate his birthday on the International Women's Day and registered his birthday on March 9. However, Gagarin showed himself as a true man in all his deeds and was "a forward-looking and victory-seeking man," a Soviet cosmonaut from the first space team Boris Volynov recalled.
Yuri Gagarin, who was born of a peasant family, was trained as a
pilot, but then turned into the first world spaceman, easily found a
common language with the British queen, who invited him for a tea party, Pavel Popovich recalled. Promoted to the deputy chief of the Cosmonaut
Training Center he avoided the authoritarian style of management and
always consulted with his colleagues.
All the world focused attention on the feat of the first world
spaceman Gagarin on the occasion of his 77th birthday anniversary. A
monument to the space pioneer will be unveiled in front of the monument to a British explorer and navigator Capt. James Cook in downtown London in the summer of 2011.
Maj. Gagarin flied around the Earth aboard the Vostok spaceship and
landed successfully in the Saratov Region on April 12, 1961. Yuri
Alexeyevich Gagarin and Vladimir Seregin died tragically in a training
flight on March 27, 1968. They crashed in a training combat fighter MiG-15 in the Vladimir Region.
