andrei korolev is the grandson of the legendary general the designer has always admired the fortitude builders of baikonur. every time i visit baikonur, it amazes me even in modern conditions to build such a technically complex structure and equipped as baikonur in 2 years, the cosmodrome is almost impossible to feel that you are standing on the shoulders of these great people who came up with all this had the courage to follow their dream on august 21, 1957 , once unique cigarette shots. the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile r-7 launches successfully from charovy test site soviet people have opened a new era of space exploration. two months later, exactly the same rocket launches the first artificial satellite into earth's orbit. thus began the space age, and the military training ground became one of the most protected and secret facilities in the country. to protect the range, military launches made combat missiles here. there was order. somewhere around 20 mines of complexes that protected almost the baikon , here are the attacks, everything was so secret there, wha

head and abaev konstantin morozov and andrei greshnev vesti, amur region vostochny cosmodrome and today, on cosmonautics day, the memory of yuri gagarin and sergei koroleved in moscow on red square near the kremlin wall to the graves of the first cosmonaut of the planet and the outstanding designer of the creator of the first manned spacecraft vostok laid flowers. on cosmonautics day, vyacheslav volodin visited the gagarin aeroclub of the saratov region, the chairman of the state duma laid flowers at the monument to the first cosmonaut of the earth at the site of the historic flight school. in dubki there is a large-scale reconstruction. it will be both a museum and an operating airfield. it was here that in 1954 yuri alekseevich first took to the skies, and 7 years later the first cosmonaut landed. gagarin is only 45 km from this attraction. now mariupol is crossed by an attempt by ukrainian formations to break out of the city with a fight, the russian ministry of defense reports , according to the agency. that night, about 100 apu fighters in armored vehicles tried to leave the territory of the metallurgical plant, but were met by russian aviation and