Presentation of the "Outer Space" collection of the Presidential Library - for passengers on land transport

On the eve of the Cosmonautics Day, the Presidential Library made a present to all passengers of land transport in St. Petersburg: according to an agreement with Gorelectrotrans and Passajiravtotrans on the plasma screens of buses, trams and trolleybuses, until April 15 it will be featured the history of the national space industry - from the works of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky to the newsreel of launching into orbit "Planet’s Cosmonaut №1" Yuri Gagarin and modern achievements of the aerospace industry.

April 12, 1961 the first manned space flight was implemented. The Presidential Library constantly enriches the collection "Outer Space" with new exclusive materials. A selection of 15 theoretical works by such famous researchers as A. Fersman ("Chemical elements of the earth and the space" in 1923), J. Perelman ("Interplanetary travels" in 1935), J. Messer ("Starry atlas for heavenly observations" of 1901), and others are among them. Here are memorable issues of the newspapers of 1961, newsreel footage, books on space exploration, including those written by cosmonauts themselves. In addition, postcards, medals, photographs telling about the conquerors of space are also presented.

A powerful impetus for the formation and development of the aerospace industry was given by a modest teacher of mathematics from Kaluga, K. E. Tsiolkovsky, who for decades outstripped his Western colleagues. In the selection of "Outer Space" for the Cosmonautics Da was added a reference to the collection "K. E. Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935)", which is available on the Presidential Library portal.

The collection is structurally divided into sections: "Space exploration", "Soviet and Russian pilot-cosmonauts", "American pilot-cosmonauts", "Medals, badges, postcards and calendars in honor of memorable events in the history of astronautics".

The Presidential Library collections provide an electronic compilation of books written by Yuri Gagarin: "The Road to Space", "I See the Earth", "Psychology and Space". The last edition describes in detail the sensations and experiences of the astronaut during the flight. Immediately - the development of ideas put forward by the founder of space travel. In the chapter "The Greenhouse of Tsiolkovsky," Yuri Gagarin, in co-authorship with the researcher Vladimir Lebedev, writes: "The earth, which is essentially a huge spacecraft that rushes in the expanses of the universe, itself prompted how to solve the problem of air purification. For the first time this "clue" was seen by K. E. Tsiolkovsky, who proposed in miniature spaceships to reproduce the basic processes of transformation of substances occurring on our planet. He wrote: "Like the Earth's atmosphere cleanses plants with the help of the Sun, so our artificial can renew. It will have to maintain the circulation of the substances necessary for human life - oxygen and water - and cleanse the air of carbon dioxide, just like the earth's".

The newsreel, united by the specialists of the Presidential Library in the film "Cosmonautics in the USSR", presents a special value in the collection. On the frames taken on April 12, 1961, the Baikonur cosmodrome was imprinted and the spacecraft was launched. On the newsreels, in addition to Yuri Gagarin, you can see the legendary designer S. P. Korolev, cosmonauts G. S. Titov, V. V. Tereshkov, A. A. Leonov, G.T . Beregovoi.

"The history of space exploration is one of the greatest chapters in the history of mankind, - we read in the foreword an electronic copy of the book-album "Space: to the 50th anniversary of the flight of Yuri Gagarin". - Overcoming the earth's gravity, people have acquired a new status, having transformed from an ordinary biological species into the inhabitants of the Galaxy. Space flights, conquest of universal spaces - this is the future of earthlings, the future of our children and grandchildren".