Exhibition "Pages of space history. The Gagarin Era"

The exhibition "Pages of space history. The Gagarin Era" is open at the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology in the hall in the Hall of literature on ecology and priority areas of science and technology of the main library building from March 18 to April 18, 2024. The exhibition is dedicated to Soviet and Russian cosmonauts and scientists – people who created the space history of our country.

History chose Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin for the first space flight. The feat of Yuri Gagarin, who opened the way to the stars, lasted 108 minutes and showed all mankind that a new era had come – the cosmic one.

The publications tell in a vivid, fascinating way about the preparation of space flights, about the first steps of mankind in the exploration of outer space, describe the training of astronauts, the work of the Mission Control Center, the search and rescue complex. It tells about the Soviet cosmodromes Baikonur, Kapustin Yar and Plesetsk, about the heroic work of astronauts in near-Earth orbits. Readers are presented with living testimonies of workers, engineers, testers, in short, those people who created equipment for space flights, "paved" space routes, and ensured the successful flight of the first citizen of the universe.

During the preparation of the exhibition, publications from the fund of the State Scientific and Technical Library of Russia were used: books, illustrated albums and photo albums, collections of articles and documents, journal articles, as well as publications from the University Library online electronic library system, IPR SMART digital educational resource, scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.RU.

The bibliographic list of references can be found by direct link or in the Readers /Thematic exhibitions section.