Sakhalin pupils made a virtual tour of the spaceport

A lesson for pupils, devoted to the Cosmonautics Day, was held in the Sakhalin Regional Universal Research Library on April 11, 2019.

Eighth-graders from the South Sakhalin school №5 learned about the predictions of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, which the scientist described in his science fiction works in the XIX century: the creation of a rocket, the launch of an artificial satellite of the Earth, the human space flight into outer space and spacewalk.

The pupils were told about the astronauts who visited Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. One of them, Pavel Popovich, is the first honorary citizen of the island capital, after whom one of the streets is named.

Then the pupils made a virtual tour of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It was from there that the first satellite of the Earth was launched, as well as vehicles with Yuri Gagarin, German Titov, Valentina Tereshkova, Alexey Leonov and other Russian cosmonauts on board launched.

The event ended with a quiz. The most active pupils received memorable prizes.

The Presidential Library’s portal provides access to “Sakhalin Region: Pages of History” collection. The development of the territory of the only Russian region, completely located on the islands, is represented by travel sketches, geographical and historical descriptions of the middle of the XIX - early XX century, as well as fragments of the 1929 newsreel.

Based on materials of http://www.libsakh.ru/.