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Cosmonautics. The cradle of Cosmonautics. (2017)

Kaluga has solemnly celebrated the 50th anniversary of the State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics.

The world's first space museum in the homeland of Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was created with the participation of the first cosmonaut of the Earth Yuri Gagarin and chief designer Sergei Korolev.

The museum contains several tens of thousands of unique exhibits covering the entire history of space exploration, from the origins of aeronautics, aviation, rocket and space technology and the first artificial Earth satellite to modern orbital stations.

The museum has become a kind of symbol of Kaluga, which is now called the cradle of space.

Cosmonauts Alexander Alexandrov and Alexander Lazutkin, director of the museum Natalia Abakumova, Governor of the Kaluga Region Anatoly Artamonov starred in the story.

Personnel

Alexandrov A.P. - pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
Lazutkin A.I. - Russian cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation, director of the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (2011-2014).
Tsiolkovsky K.E. is a Russian and Soviet theoretical scientist, thinker, teacher, inventor, author of many scientific works on aeronautics, rocket dynamics and cosmonautics, projects of aircraft and rocket and space technology.
Artamonov A.D. - Doctor of Economics, Governor of the Kaluga Region (2000-2020).

Calendar

11.24.2017