the first time the ballet was staged in an abridged version, the full version , staged by leonid lavrovskyme a classic. after the war, the same production was moved to moscow, to the bolshoi theater. romeo juliet is now one of the most popular ballets of the 20th century. but the knights dance is prokofiev’s most performed composition. the original performance of the forties can be seen at the mariinsky theater today. on january 11, 1957, the cosmodrome was founded plesetsk is the northernmost one of the largest cosmodromes in the world. located in the arkhangelsk region, it is the only operating cosmodrome in europe. at first, the cosmodrome was called the angara military facility. intercontinental ballistic missiles were on combat duty, but soon a research test site for spacecraft appeared . in the 1970-80s, almost half of all space launches were made from plesetsk. in 1978, from there, for the first time in the ussr, a small french satellite was launched, in eighty-third, for the first time in the union , monkeys, macaques, were sent from here into the orbit of the earth, closest to hum