Marking 60th anniversary of the first manned flight into space: Exhibition of newspaper publications and original dissertations "The Key to the Start" presented in the Russian State Library

17 April 2021

The branch of the Russian State Library in Khimki (Moscow) has opened a thematic exhibition of newspapers and dissertations dedicated to the anniversary date - the 60th anniversary of the first flight of Yuri Gagarin into space.

The exposition presents 12 originals of newspapers from the library's collections, dedicated not only to this date, but also to other world records of the Soviet Union: the flight of the world's first woman-cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and the spacewalk of Alexei Leonov.