Russian President Vladimir Putin on April 12, Cosmonautics Day, will visit the museum complex at the landing site of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in the city of Engels in the Saratov Region. He will also hold a videoconference meeting on the development of the space industry in Russia.
– Sixty years from the date of Gagarin's space flight is a very important date for our entire country. This is Cosmonautics Day, the day of our national pride, and, of course, the President cannot ignore this day. He will fly to Engels and visit the landing site of Gagarin, there is a modest museum complex there, Putin will visit it, – said the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov.
As a reminder, today, on April 9, on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's orbital flight, the Yu.A. Gagarin (Soyuz MS-18) manned spacecraft was launched on the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle from the Baikonur cosmodrome … Two Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov, as well as NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hai, went to the International Space Station (ISK).
