On 16 April 2021, a staff member of the department “Museum Street” of Bolgar Museum-Reserve Sabirzyanova L. I. held a lecture on “What we know about space” for the students of Bolgar comprehensive school №1. The lesson was devoted to the Cosmonautics Day.
Cosmonautics Day is a holiday celebrated at first in USSR, then – in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. 12 April is the date established to mark the first human flight into space.
On 12 April 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin started from the «Baikonur» cosmodrome on a spaceship “Vostok-1” and made the first in the world orbital overflight of the planet Earth. The flight in circumterrestrial space lasted about two hours.
During the lecture, the students knew the history of emergence of the holiday, became acquainted with history of space exploration and heard the names of first cosmonauts. At the end, kids made colorful drawings.

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