Resources of Presidential Library presented at Space Week in Murmansk

From 8 to 12 April 2025 the Murmansk State Regional Universal Scientific Library, based on the Regional Centre of the Presidential Library, hosted the Space Week dedicated to the Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics. For schoolchildren and students the library staff held a series of events of the scientific and cognitive programme "Space as a Premonition".

During the intellectual and cognitive game Space. Dreams. Discoveries participants answered questions about space exploration and celestial bodies, learnt how the space theme is reflected in fiction, music and cinema. The children were introduced to literature on the history of cosmonautics.

Specialists of the Murmansk Atomic Energy Information Centre held an intellectual team game "Atoms are beautifully put together" in the library. For college students they prepared questions about the history of space and cosmonautics, about space in mass culture, about the mysteries of parallel worlds and planets of the solar system.

An entertaining quiz for schoolchildren Star Worlds acquainted them with space stories in works of fiction by Russian and foreign authors.

The library guests were shown the documentary film Space Pilots from the collection of the Presidential Library. The film is based on unique video footage shot at the Research Institute of Aviation and Space Medicine during secret tests with human participation.

Schoolchildren also took part in the informative programme Big Space Journey, which included a tour of the exhibition "It's Fantastic!", a review of the best fantastic books about space and a fascinating humorous quiz about space in fiction.

The exhibition of publications Space is Getting Closer introduced readers to books about the history of exploration of near-Earth space. Great interest was aroused by the central newspapers of 1965, which published the news about the human spacewalk. In 2025 it will be 60 years since the Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov stepped into the unknown overboard a spaceship for the first time in the world.

The Space Week was attended by students of Murmansk Marine Fisheries College, Murmansk Construction College, Murmansk College of Economics and Information Technologies, Murmansk Pedagogical College, Murmansk Industrial College, Murmansk Marine Fisheries College, high school students of secondary school No. 43 and gymnasium No. 7, and pupils of the Lapland Centre for Further Education. In total more than 400 people took part in the events of the programme.

The electronic collection Outer Space is presented on the Presidential Library's portal. It includes studies, books, newsreel fragments, periodicals, photographs, postcards, commemorative medals and badges reflecting various milestones in the development of cosmonautics.