and on the site e, which is located next to the baikonur cosmodrome, the attraction is the wheel of courage and the artists of the russian state circus company, brothers mahmud and nur-sultan suonbekov.

i even lost my microphone backstage. andrey and i just stared at the wheel of courage and to this great music by eduard nikolaevich artemyev, in my opinion, this is just music created for this number. in gagarin, the anniversary of the flight, which we are celebrating today, was worldwide. i say, not only flew around the planet earth in a spaceship, but then repeatedly he circled and circled it like a superhero, like a cosmic columbus of the 20th century, and girls around the world are simple and movie stars

like ginalabrigida. and even the english queen elizabeth ii herself, who repeatedly recalled this meeting. they wanted to hug him , kiss him, take an autograph, disregarding all the rules of etiquette, and the man who accompanied gagarin on his trip to france recalled that every evening, and in the hotel, gagarin sat down and sewed on his tunic. a new set of buttons, because during the day there were so many people who wanted to to unscrew the memory to tear off with a button from the tunic of a great man, that by the end there was not one left, but notice gagarin sat down every evening. and he sewed buttons on his own to his tunic. the buttons on sergei garmash's jacket still exist, you welcomed him so warmly that he will now appear on this stage again. and now he will read a poem, which we know well as the song of nikolai nikolaevich dobronravov, know what

a guy he was. do you know what kind of guy he was, the one who opened the path of the stars, the flame was and the thunder the cosmodrome froze and said softly. he he said, let's go, he waved his hand, as if along the st. petersburg st. petersburg raced over the ground. you know what kind of a guy he was, how he loved his native fields, who the steppe share the first start from the earth was a declaration of love to her. you know what a guy he was in his arms, the whole world wore him. the son of the earth and the stars, nezhin was a simple light for people, like dan of wheels. you know what kind

of a guy he was, how he went out with a stick, how he sang songs, he weighed and dared. how recklessly you wanted to live , you know what kind of guy he was. no, it wasn't death. he won, you hear the distant thunder. you see that he is going to the spaceport again. he says let's go and a living star, as if along the st. petersburg st. petersburg rushes above the ground.

violinist vadim repin julienne reflections we just heard the poems of nikolai nikolaevich dobronravov , which we know as the song yes, reading by sergei garmash and now we will hear his element already to the music of his great wife alexander nikolaevna pakhmutova when nikolai nikolaevich was asked to replace the name of the pilot in the text of this song, because that he mentioned there exupery which we have already

today they said and said, well, why don’t we have a french pilot, good soviet pilots , nikolaevich never answered. so it is very important for me that this is an exupery, because exupery is not only a pilot, but also a poet. the song tenderness that will now sound was written to the words of nikolai dobronravov and sergey grebennikov e appeared in the mid-sixties and it was a cycle, embracing the sky, a cycle dedicated to soviet pilots, but the first pilot to whom this song