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Russia to Name Town after Space Pioneer Tsiolkovsky

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Russia to Name Town after Space Pioneer Tsiolkovsky


12.04.2013

President Vladimir Putin proposed on Friday naming a future town near the Russian Vostochny space port after the father of the Soviet space program, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, RIA Novosti reports.
 
“I think it will be right if, after consulting it with the local residents, we will call the future town Tsiolkovsky,” Putin said on Friday, as Russia celebrated Cosmonautics Day marking the first manned space flight on that date in 1961 by Yury Gagarin.
 
Tsiolkovsky, who died in 1935, is considered a pioneer of astronautical theory and one of the founding fathers of rocketry. He published a theoretical paper on using rockets to explore space as far back as 1903.
 
In the Soviet Union, towns were sometimes named after the leading figures in the space program, like Gagarin or Korolyov (after prominent rocket engineer Sergei Korolyov).

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