you won’t understand anything about it if you look only at the sprout, you don’t understand what and how it lives, you don’t understand why where it grows, if you don’t take into account this root system. yes, german , it was a very interesting conversation, thank you very much, thank you very much, this was a must-read podcast, i’m aglayana batnikova, my guest was the writer german sudulaev, we talked about the prose of andrei platonov, even more stories about their writers books on the site. first channel 1tv.ru. hello, i am pilot cosmonaut anton shkaplerov. this is a space stories podcast. today my guest is darya chudnaya, deputy general director of a private russian space company. journalist.

dasha, hello. hello, anton nikolaevich. you graduated from the faculty of journalism. and, as far as i understand, it had nothing to do with astronautics, but somehow miraculously you began to work in the space industry. tell us about your first contact with space. it seems to me that the key word here is miraculously, because i have never i planned and didn’t want to connect my life with the astronaut, with aviation, i didn’t think about it. i'll explain why. i didn’t want to say, because my dad has worked in the aviation field all his life, and my grandfather, he was a pilot, so i can say that i can probably say that i come from such an aviation dynasty, and naturally, when i graduated school, first of all my parents asked if i wanted to try to enroll in mine, but something in me was the moscow aviation institute, the moscow aviation institute, yes, but something in me was apparently different, it seemed to me that i was a more humanitarian person, that i was a more...

creative person, and i decided to go to the faculty of journalism of the russian state humanitarian university, from which i graduated. probably about eight years after i graduated from university, i miraculously ended up in the cosmonautics museum, but before we talk about the cosmonautics museum, i’ll take a step back and talk about what happened to me when i was 10-11 years old, because my first contact with space, if we talk about this, it happened exactly at this age, at that time i... lived in hanoi, in vietnam, my dad worked there, on duty he met all the important guests who flew to the city of hanoi, and one day valentina vladimirovna tereshkova flew to hanoi, my dad told me that the cosmonaut was arriving, the first woman, i already knew this, i naturally really wanted to meet her, and i don’t remember my first feeling from our meetings, but i remember something else, i remember that she... then

a postcard, and signed it for me, my dad gave me this postcard, i looked, and it was written there, giver of all the best, valentina vladimirovna tereshkova, and i remember, then it was in me it gave birth to such an incredible wave of warmth, because a lot of people came, they left a lot of autographs, everyone wrote very different things, just a month before, there came and... another very famous person who wrote to me: dasha, listen to dad , i always wash the dishes, and i was upset, but there was some very warm, some very human attitude here, this was my first contact with space, then we very quickly move to 2014, when i was invited to the position of head of the press service in moscow museum of cosmonautics, and if you know, then in 1914 a new director arrived.

a new team was recruited for the museum, and together with this new team i also came to the museum and a completely different life began, which i now i can already say that for 10 years i i work in space, i have absolutely this feeling, because i got this involvement in an absolutely incredible area, which charges me so much that i can talk about it endlessly, and thanks to what the museum gave me, thanks to that experience, thanks to those... acquaintances, thanks to those meetings that i had in the museum, i really, it seems to me, have succeeded both in many ways as a person and in many ways as a professional in this field. what was the museum like when you came to work? in 2014 year, the museum was very different from the museum as we see it now, i was probably very different, because i, like many people, had the feeling that the museum was something frozen, that there was nothing in the museum it happens that... a museum is necessarily

about some exhibits, and behind which it is often not always clear what stands, and especially if it is a scientific and technical museum, so, of course, i had this relationship with the museum: a relationship, i’m still i didn’t understand what to expect next, what to expect next from this place, little by little, my team and i began to develop all this, develop, develop , we did one project, we did a second project , we improved something here, we improved something here, looking ahead, i will say that in 2014 the attendance at the moscow museum of cosmonautics was more than 200 thousand people, in the pre-pandemic year this attendance was... almost 800 thousand people, the museum was filled with life, the museum was constantly filled with some kind of activity, some kind of movement, very different target audiences began to come to the museum, that is, this it’s also important that not only there...