The Presidential Library marks the Cosmonautics Day

On April 12, 2024 at 10:00 the Presidential Library will host an annual conference dedicated to Cosmonautics Day. The event will mark the 90th anniversary of the birth of Yuri Gagarin.

A solemn ceremony of commemorative cancellation of the postage stamp dedicated to Cosmonautics Day will be held before the launch of the conference, the guest of honor of which will be pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Andrei Borisenko. Canceled postal products become unique and acquire special philatelic significance.

The conference “Cosmonautics Day at the Presidential Library” will be traditionally opened with a greeting to Russian cosmonauts who are on board the International Space Station.

The conference will present a speech dedicated to declassified materials from Yuri Gagarin’s personal record. It was transferred for digitization to the Presidential Library by the Roscosmos State Corporation as part of a cooperation agreement signed in March 2023. The personal record of the first cosmonaut on the planet includes a questionnaire, a list of positions in the cosmonaut corps from trainee to pilot-engineer-cosmonaut, information about marital status, characteristics from the place of study and other documents. One can learn about them in the electronic reading room of the Presidential Library at Senate, 3, in the Reserve Center in Moscow, a branch of the library in Tyumen Region, as well as in more than 1,600 remote access centers to library resources opened in the Russian Federation and abroad.

At the conference “Cosmonautics Day at the Presidential Library” the niece of the first cosmonaut Natalya Gagarina, an employee of the Yu. A. Gagarin Memorial Museum-Reserve, will talk about the institution’s international exhibition projects.

There will also be presented speeches dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of cosmonaut Alexei Leonov and the 65th anniversary of the launch of the world's first spacecraft towards the Moon from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The event participants will learn what contribution the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Bolshevik plant (today the Obukhov Plant) made to the development of cosmonautics, what the Space Petersburg project is and what history looks like in the symbols of the Gagarin era.

As part of the conference, guests of the Presidential Library will be able to visit the multimedia exhibition “Road to Space. Marking the 90th anniversary of the birth of Yuri Gagarin" and find out how it was created.

The event will be attended by representatives of the Roscosmos State Corporation, RSC Energia, the North-Western Interregional Public Organization of the Cosmonautics Federation of the Russian Federation, teachers, students and cadets of higher educational institutions of St. Petersburg. Participants from other Russian cities will connect to them via video conferencing.

The conference is free. The event will be broadcast on the Presidential Library’s portal in the Live Broadcasts section in accordance with the program of live broadcasts as well as on the institution’s Rutube-channel, on the social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki.

The Presidential Library's portal features electronic collection Outer Space. It includes theoretical studies, official documents, periodicals, photographs, newsreel fragments, documentaries and video lectures on the history of the development of astronautics.

Accreditation of media representatives is until 13:00 April 11, 2024.

Please forward applications for accreditation following the attached form marked Media Accreditation at media@prlib.ru, hudjakova@prlib.ru Alexandra Khudyakova, tel.: (812) 305-16-21, ext. 167; mob. +7 (981) 788-28-08.

The letter should contain the full name, date and place of birth, passport data (series, number, place of registration), a list of carry-on equipment, contact phone numbers, the name of the media.

We draw the attention of the media representatives that it is necessary to forward applications for accreditation and arrive at the event in advance.

Entrance to the Presidential Library is carried out only by prior registration and upon showing a passport: for media representatives - through entrance № 2, participants and guests of the event - through entrance № 1.

In order to reduce the risks of the spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), the use of personal protective equipment during the event is mandatory for all attendees.