baikanur. anastasia benedesyuk observed how the flight was approaching this morning. was still sleeping at the cosmodrome baikonor was already approaching the debut of a citizen of the republic of belarus. behind me, let's call it the hangar, is actually an assembly and testing building. there are always a lot of journalists at this moment, everyone wants to capture it. at that very moment, exactly at 7:30 am local time, at 5:30 minsk time, the doors opened and a diesel locomotive slowly drove out, carrying the same soyuz 21a launch vehicle, the backup crew with anastasia linkova, the main one , also came to see this traditionally it was not. interestingly, they assembled a space rocket in samara, here is the manned transport ship soyuz in korolev here. they were delivered disassembled at the end of last year, at the beginning of this year, they were already assembled here as a construction kit. the length of the launch vehicle is about 40 m, weight is more than 33 tons. there is a tactical missile system to be installed. this is platform number 31, where gagarin also

our correspondent works in baikanur anastasia benedesyuk, she has exclusive footage from today.ou have the floor. good afternoon, studio, we are at the start, and as you can see, in full combat readiness, 3 km separates us and. rocket, well, these are the safety measures, in fact, this is the only closest opportunity to observe that very historical moment for those who never became an astronaut, the crew, by the way, is already inside, if there is such a technical possibility, i will ask the directors to show how it was, the first we see is marina vasilevskaya, she smiles behind her tracy dyson, but then oleg navitsky , look how... site 254, it was here that the cosmonauts changed into spacesuits, we could observe this, i will ask now to show those same shots, they checked technical nuances there, checked their health status, and there however, behind the glass, our cosmonauts marina vasilevskaya could also communicate with the belarusians who came to support them. for example, my mother gave parting words, said: she supports marina, in turn, she advised everyone not to worry ab

we continue to follow from baikanur, anastasia benedesyuk and... ivan mozgo. ld like to note the calmness of our team. you even see in during the flight, vasilevskaya waved her hand. everything worked fine. god bless. and we hope that this will continue to be the case, this is a new era in general for the republic of belarus in space exploration, we are engaged in the exploration of the earth, now we will be engaged in science in space, i want to congratulate us all on the beginning of the journey, we are already talking about manned cosmonautics, we we are talking about the exploration of outer space in space, until now we have explored the earth from space, but there is still quite a difficult risk ahead... there is work to be done on research in biomedicine, experiments on growing plants, as well as testing complex instruments in zero gravity conditions. the space program was developed by the academy of sciences of belarus and roscosmos with the participation of the russian academy of sciences. the belarusian country made the right bet that a representative

baikanur? connections with the studio anastasia benedesyuk. eetings, greetings from baikanur, behind me now there is a hotel in which the crew marina vasilevskaya, oleg novitski and tracy dyson were in space quarantine. this morning began with traditions, but first i would like to say that baikanur is today, of course. grieves, grieves together with moscow and russia. in terms of security measures , everything here is as it was, after all, these are sensitive facilities, and the city itself, it is under protection, it is on a long-term lease from russia from kazakhstan. however, this is not some kind of mass cultural event. cosmonauts have a special scientific mission: they fly to carry out scientific experiments, everything here is according to protocol, cosmonauts need psychological support, so today relatives and relatives have been here since the morning. colleagues, including our marina vasilevskaya, all remained, this is a tradition, leaving the hotel, then a bus and a road to change into those same spacesuits, their health will be checke

anastasia benedesyuk from baikanur has all the details.s windy, exciting, very solemn at baikanur, this morning we met the cosmonauts, they were leaving the hotel where they had been since march 6, it was a long one. amazing, great, all the best to her, she is flying in the best crew, with the best commander, on the best spaceship on the best space rocket, traditionally there was that same legendary song, grass near the house, excellent, grass near the house, an anthem of astronautics, a soviet hit, which even today glorifies the difficult one. the work of people in orbit and why it is their homeland is more global than the whole earth, which they see through the porthole, everyone admits that they are very sad, marina vasilevskaya said: “she will delight us with photographs of belarus.” cosmonauts - this is also a tradition - left their autographs at the hotel, although these are no longer doors hotel rooms, and a separate panel. in addition, the day before they watched the white sun of the desert, well, now they went to change clothes, t

anastasia benedesyuk reports from baikanur. 21 minutes and 19 seconds, it seems that absolutely everyone has already learned this, today we already know when the docking will happen . 19:40 docks with the russian segment of the iss. a press conference was held the day before, where marina vasilevskaya said that she was absolutely sure in their own strength and are rather even more worried about their parents, who are also in baikanur as part of the belarusian delegation, they arrived on a charter from minsk, this is an order from the head of state along with... materials for the ground, then we have targeted work lactoferin, hurricane, this also photographing the earth, certain points, of course, our republic of belarus, popularization of manned cosmonautics, amateur radio communications will be carried out with the international space station, we continue to work at baikanur and all we will immediately transmit operational information to minsk, of course we are waiting and supporting, literally for a few days... the team was interested in health and readiness before the start. according

our correspondent anastasia benedesyuk works at baikanur, she has all the details of today. astronauts do not have the word “last” in everyday life. only the extreme ones, and not us journalists, are often ruled that this is the only way. for example, the last flight of cosmonaut oleg novitsky was the third, and... the last charter, even then, of belavia flight attendant marina vasilevskaya to egypt. now we are on the territory of the airport, which is also called extreme and it is unique. it is the only one, russian, but not on russian territory. it just so happened that it, like the baikanur cosmodrome and the city of baikanur, was leased from kazakhstan. by the way, all crews of manned unions fly here. during the launch, helicopters and rescue planes are also on duty here. services, and today it was here that the plane of the national bilavia airlines, on it the closest and dearest, who are often silent, how much they worry, they know their girl is space, but for 12 days it is too far for them, oh, dad, mom, brother, daughter-in-law, sister, and husband, nephew, danilka,

republic of belarus, is planned to leave for the russian segment of the iss from baikanur on march 21. anastasia benedesyukc states continue to fence themselves off with an iron curtain from the civilized world. at midnight, vilna will be closed by two checkpoints on... the border with belarus, lavorishkis and raigoroda, adjacent to kotlovka and privalka. all traffic will be redirected to the two remaining checkpoints. now it will be possible to cross the border with lithuania only through kamenny log and beniconi. however, there will be problems there too. in addition, the lithuanian authorities prohibit the passage of cyclists and pedestrians across the border. let me note that since the very morning, there have been large queues at these border crossings. in total , about a thousand trucks are waiting to leave there. our correspondent yuri kornilovich is monitoring the situation at the privalka checkpoint. we are located at the privalka checkpoint on the belarusian-lithuanian border. a few hours before traffic closes. lithuania there are practically no trucks on our side, leaving for about twenty passen

our correspondent, anastasia benedesyuk, works in baikanur, she has all the details of today.monauts don’t use the word “last” in everyday life, only “extreme”, and not us journalists, they often rule that this is the only way. for example, extreme flight. cosmonaut oleg novitsky was the third, the last charter, even then belavia flight attendant marina vasilevskaya to egypt. now we are on the territory of the airport, which is also called the extreme one and it is unique, it is the only russian one, but not on russian territory, it just so happens that it, like the baikanur cosmodrome, and the city of baikanur are leased from kazakhstan. by the way, all the crews of the manned unions fly here during the launch here. helicopters and planes of rescue services are on watch, and even today it was here that the plane of the national airline bilavia landed, on it are the closest and dearest, who are often silent, how much they worry, they know their girl space, but for 12 days it’s too far for them, oh , dad, mom, brother, daughter-in-law, sister and husband, nephew, danilka. marin

anastasia benedesyuk. this won't be the easiest route. minsk and baikanur are separated by about 3,000 km.way, between the earth and the international space station, just think about it, it’s eight times less than about 400. until recently, this journey to the iss, 400 km away, took the cosmonauts several days; roscosmos has developed express delivery. in 2020, for the first time, specialists were delivered in 3 hours and just a few minutes. we will deliver quickly, the energia rocket and space corporation promised. speaking about the crew, oleg novitsky, marina vasilevskaya, tracy dyson. it is planned that the manned soyuz ms-25 spacecraft will depart to the iss using a two-orbit scheme, that is, the trio will be able to reach the station 3 hours after launch. she flew in the clouds, but she always really wanted higher, more. good evening, not long ago marina vasilevskaya worked in exactly the same way on board an airplane. from 2017 belavia flight attendant from 2021 with prefix. instructor, this photo is from her personal archive, it’s already unusual to see her without a space blue uni

and now we are again transported to baikanur, waiting for the start, our film crew is there. tomorrow anastasia benedesyukholy of holies of the baikanur museum complex, to the arrival of marina vasilevskaya. yes, about a thousand people received permission to watch the spacecraft take off. remember, baikanur is a closed city. in addition to our fellow countrymen, there are russians, americans, this is the geography of the flight participants, of course, local residents, but they came even from oman and vietnam.

anastasia benedesyuk will tell you how the flight was brought closer this morning. minsk was still sleeping at the baikanure; the debut of a citizen of the republic of belarus was already approaching. behind me , let's call it the hangar, is actually an assembly and testing building. journalists are always at this moment. a lot, everyone wants to capture that very moment, exactly at 7:30 a.m. local time, at 5:30 a.m. minsk time the doors opened and a diesel locomotive slowly drove out, carrying the same soyuz 21a launch vehicle, the backup crew with anastasia linkova also came to see this; the main crew traditionally was not there. what’s interesting is that they assembled a space rocket in samara, here is a manned transport ship with... a union in korolev, they were delivered here in disassembled form, at the end of last year, at the beginning of this, they were already assembled here as a designer. the length of the launch vehicle is about 40 m, the weight is more than 33 tons. here the space rocket is placed into the launch system and the service column is lifted into a vertical position by tens. this i

anastasia benedesyuk, ivan mazgo, we continue to work at baikanur.o, tomorrow, march 21 at 16:21, you and i will witness an epoch-making event. belarusian marina vasilevskaya will go into space. our tv channel will broadcast live the launch of the soyuz ms-25 manned spacecraft. at 16:10 my colleagues will go live with a special edition of the news. together we will see the start. from the baikanur cosmodrome. you can also watch the epoch-making event live on our website tvr.by on the atn youtube channel. polish farmers began a complete blockade of a number of checkpoints on the ukrainian border. the roads are blocked even for passenger buses. in total , 70 thousand people take part in the actions in poland. the protests will cover 580 settlements. road closures are planned. to reduce the intensity of discontent with the country's ministry of agriculture. and, despite the demands of official warsaw, as well as french officials, the european parliament decided to extend the permit for duty-free transport of agricultural products from ukraine until june

anastasia benedesyuk. over to you. good evening, studio, we are waiting. baikanur is ready. it's definitely tomorrow.ur marina vasilevskaya, oleg novitsky and tracy dyson will depart according to a two-day rendezvous scheme, that is, the docking will occur on march 25. at 18:10 minsk time, what is known yet at this hour? tomorrow we will have a traditional farewell, leaving the hotel, there will be tourists around, as we learned today, we talked to some of them, they deliberately postponed their flight, stayed here to support the crews, so they will be here, marina’s parents will also be here vasilevskaya, we also saw them today, they are in a good mood, they are waiting, encouraging marina, although in general marina does not need to be encouraged. we all remember, her pulse was 66 yesterday, this was confirmed to us today by the director of the national airline belavia, let me remind you that our marina vasilevskaya has worked as a flight attendant since 2017, the night before the night in the morning we also talked with marina yesterday before the start, we were at the wire, we were practically st

anastasia benedesyuk and ivan mozgo, telenews agency, continue to work at baikanur.president’s simply cosmic schedule. after all the meetings and negotiations, the working day ended evening training, playing together. with the hockey club dynamo minsk. dynamo. wednesday officially closes the season, we have already managed to rest a little after a spectacular series with our teammates from moscow, but today we played two periods of 35 minutes each and this, by the way, is a standard training format. the russian team had a lot of goals, alexander lukashenko converted the shootout. send it to us, we’ll train you. nato is still trying to impose its game on us, and the anglo-saxons no longer hide their bloody plans in our region. in romania began construction of the largest military base. it will be designed for 10,000 military personnel. they plan to build the base on site within 5 years. an active military airfield, which right now, at these moments, is a nato hub for the transfer of military equipment for ukraine. the area of ​​the possible future facility will be 280

anastasia benedesyuk and ivan mozgo reached baikanur.smic rates this year. the government has already announced a figure: growth in january was almost 5.5%. over the past year, the ministry of industry's enterprises traded $6.5 billion, thereby exceeding the maximum level in decades by more than 7%. this year the plans are no less ambitious and it is important that we reach strong manufacturers and in terms of product output and sales those who had slowed down a little were catching up. non-standard solutions and approaches to fresh marketing moves are expected from the new ceo of atlant. the personnel decision was made this week, we talked with dmitry kharitonchik about plans and goals. every belarusian, and the entire post-soviet space, knows this brand. the atlant refrigerator was, is, and will be in our homes. moreover , it lasts for decades, sometimes the design is outdated, but it cools without failure. the belarusian manufacturer has been holding its brand for almost 65 years, and the buyer tests it daily. here this model, by the

my colleague anastasia benedesyuk followed the entire process of preparing the crew for the flight before the launch , the emotions of family and friends who arrived at baikanur the day before, parting words, sincere support of people who love space. let's remember how it was, exclusive footage from today. further. there are quite a lot of journalists here, not only belarusian, big landing and russian, of course, but also international information agencies, as for tourists, now there are about 700 of them here, but quite large and delegations, representatives of other countries, in general the geography is quite wide, there are even from oman, we talked with the belarusians, this is the mood with which they are here now, we are very glad that we are present here. great pride for our belarusian , for our fellow countrywoman, when we saw our marina, honestly, my hands were shaking, and just pride for us, for our girl, that she went through such a difficult path, because she is so strong, that’s it i would like to follow an example, i’ll be honest, good luck to our marina, this is the crew’s first stop, the so-called 254 platform, it was here that the cosmonauts

anastasia benedesyuk will tell you how we are approaching the flight. until december 1995, baikanury it meets alert, there are special purpose objects here, therefore under protection. the cosmodrome, like the city, was leased by russia from kazakhstan, and long-term rent until 2050 costs $115 million a year. in baikanur, russian rubles are used, and bank cards are practically not accepted. you can find out how else the city lives. from the fresh press, however, a newspaper comes out with the name baikanur, once a week on fridays, for the last two weeks, all the news is only about the crews with belarusians, the crews of the soyuz ms-25 ship arrived at the cosmodrome, and they’re already in the air flags of russia, belarus, kazakhstan and usa. on friday the twenty-second we are waiting for news about the start of the crew. all the hotels in the city were booked last year, but... our space floor always had to be grounded in a hostel during the launch, but does that really matter? the main thing is that now everyone knows that belarusians are flying into space, and this is not only fr

from baikanur for the main broadcast about the debut of a citizen of belarus in space. anastasia benedesyuk over the past 10 years the space industry of belarus has not only grown, but also acquired its own ambitions. advanced optics and microcircuits. union projects of belarus and russia and now our man is in orbit. about the intricacies of launching and staying on the iss and the importance of such. this is the first successful, but far from the last step in space by belarusian science and technology. congratulations! of course, we all know that not everything went as planned on march 21, the flight was postponed to march 23, these are the situations, as far as we know, that happen in space sphere is not uncommon? rescheduling flights is , of course, a normal situation, this is a very tense moment, a very large load on the equipment, if at least... some little detail is not well thought out, the reserve does not accurately respond to the computer's request, of course the flight must be rescheduled, this does it. regularly, and more than once, even such a great space engineer as elon musk,

march 25, we are waiting at 18:10 minsk time. from baikanur for the main broadcast about the debut of a citizen of belarus in space anastasia benedesyukld be noted that the space industry of belarus over the past 10 years has not just grew, but also acquired its own ambitions, transferring optics and microcircuits, allied projects of belarus to russia, and now our man is in orbit. we will talk about the intricacies of launching and staying on the iss and the importance of such flights for belarus with a russian astronomer, associate professor at the faculty of physics at moscow state university. a great achievement, the flight of the belarusian cosmonaut is a step in the development of the country, i want to congratulate my belarusian colleagues, i hope that this is the first successful, but far from the last step in space from the outside. it is known that there are in the space sphere, not rarity? rescheduling flights is, of course, march, these are situations, as far as the normal situation is concerned, this is a very tense moment, a very large load on the equipment, if at least some little thing is not well thought out, but defin

anastasia benedesyuk reports from baikanur. 16:21 minutes and 19 seconds, it seems that absolutely everyone has already learned this. today we already know when the docking will happen. 19:40. it connects with the russian... the iss held a press conference the day before, where marina vasilevskaya said that she was absolutely confident in her abilities and was rather even more worried about her parents, who were also in baikanur as part of the belarusian delegation. arrived by charter from minsk, this is an order from the head of state, along with the relatives and friends of marina vasilevskaya on board are the relatives of anastasia lenkova, young scientific athletes, people who love and are passionate about space. in addition... she told me what she will do on the iss, let me remind you that for 12 days she will have to conduct eight experiments, four of which are completely new, that is , i will need to take spectral video photos, photograph the earth, and also dump all the materials to the ground, then we have targeted work lactoferin, hurricane, this is also photographing the ground a