In honor of the first in the history of mankind, the Caracas Planetarium opened the exhibition “Russia – a modern space power”, which tells about the achievements of Russian astronautics in 2022.
As RG was informed at the Russian Embassy in Venezuela, in his speech the head of the diplomatic mission Sergei Melik-Bagdasarov told the audience in detail about the feat of Yuri Gagarin, the achievements of cosmonautics Soviet and space industry successes in modern Russia. Attendees of the event were able to watch a video about the major space launches of the past year, provided by the Roscosmos State Corporation.
The Vice Minister of Ecosocialism of Venezuela, who participated in the opening of the exhibition, congratulated those present on the celebration, specifying very precisely the importance of the first flight in space.
- For us, Russian astronautics reflects the most important achievements of mankind, and Yuri Gagarin is a symbol of character, courage, determination and revolutionary spirit, – said the Deputy Minister.
For Cuba, the theme of the first manned flight into space is always special. The fact is that Gagarin arrived on Liberty Island less than four months after his escape.
For the country, the arrival of the space pioneer then became a truly national historic event. Gagarin traveled across the country, wherever he was greeted by throngs of Cubans, and the famous photograph of smiling Fidel Castro and Yuri Gagarin hugging in Havana’s Revolution Square has gone down in history. By the way, Gagarin became the first foreigner to receive one of the highest honors of the Cuban state – the Order of Playa Giron.
On the occasion of Astronautics Day, the National Library of Cuba inaugurated an exhibition of space photographs taken by Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin during his space flight.
The public watched a film on the conquest of space and the first Latin American cosmonaut, Cuban Arnoldo Tamayo Mendez, became the guest of honor at the event. He made his flight in September 1980 as co-pilot of the Soyuz-38 spacecraft under the control of Yuri Romanenko as part of the Soviet Interkosmos space program.
They remembered Yuri Gagarin’s escape to Cuba, not just to the capital. In the small town of Jaguey Grande, in the province of Matanzas, a solemn meeting of the Group of Friends of Russia functioning here took place, and the feat of the Soviet cosmonaut became the main topic.
As Felix Jorge Barrios Malpica, the head of this association, told RG, middle school students from the local school were treated to an excursion to an exhibition held at the City Historian’s Office, who told the young Cubans the feat of Gagarin and its importance for the history of humanity.
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