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Visiting Cosmos pavilion at VDNKh exhibition

On Cosmonautics Day, Vladimir Putin visited the renovated Cosmos pavilion at the VDNKh exhibition.

April 12, 2018
15:10
Moscow
During his visit to the Cosmos Pavilion at VDNKh, Vladimir Putin viewed the descent module of the Vostok 1 spaceship, on board which Yuri Gagarin made the first manned space flight on April 12, 1961.
Visiting the Cosmos pavilion at the VDNKh exhibition. With Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin (left), Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and Roscosmos Head Igor Komarov (right).
Visiting the Cosmos pavilion at the VDNKh Exhibition of Economic Achievements.
Visiting the Cosmos pavilion at the VDNKh exhibition. With Roscosmos Head Igor Komarov (left), Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin (right).
Visiting the Cosmonautics and Aviation Centre in the Cosmos pavilion at VDNKh.
Visiting the Cosmonautics and Aviation Centre in the Cosmos pavilion at VDNKh.
Visiting the Cosmos pavilion at the VDNKh Exhibition of Economic Achievements.
With cosmonauts and veterans of the space industry.
Talking to cosmonauts and veterans of the space industry.
With Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin during a visit to the Cosmos pavilion at the VDNKh exhibition.
Visiting the Cosmos pavilion at the VDNKh exhibition. With Roscosmos Head Igor Komarov (left), Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin (right).

The President looked at some of the exhibits, including the Vostok-1 descent vehicle in which Yuri Gagarin landed, and the exhibit devoted to the international Moon Mission.

Vladimir Putin was also shown around the Cosmonautics and Aviation Centre in the Cosmos pavilion. The centre is divided into several areas, including a museum and exhibition area, an educational and research section for the implementation of projects proposed by children and young people, and recreation and family entertainment areas.

The decision to create the Cosmonautics and Aviation Centre, designed to be the largest space museum and exhibition centre in Russia and the world, was taken in 2015. The project was implemented by the Moscow government with support from the Roscosmos and Rostec state corporations, the United Aircraft Corporation and several defence companies.

Accompanying the President during the tour of the Cosmos pavilion were Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin Sobyanin Sergei Sobyanin SergeiMoscow Mayor , Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin Rogozin Dmitry Rogozin Dmitry and Roscosmos head Igor Komarov.

Vladimir Putin also talked to cosmonauts and veterans of the space industry and congratulated them on their professional day.

See also

Conversation with cosmonauts and space industry veterans
April 12, 2018

Geography

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  • Space

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  • Rogozin Dmitry
  • Sobyanin Sergei

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Publication date: April 12, 2018, 15:10

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