The Russian Center at Yerevan State University is continuing to take part in the First in Space campaign in honor of the 50th anniversary of Gagarin’s flight. Most recently, students gathered for a Meeting with the First Cosmonaut of the Planet. Workers of the Russian Center told the students about the campaign and showed them a slide show on the Dawn of the Space Age as well as a video about the first flight into outer space.
Students read verse composed by Simonov, Tvardovsky, Vysotsky and Berggolts in honor of cosmonauts and also sang songs on this theme.
The speakers paid particular attention to the fact that Russian was the first language in space and read the verse by Kochetkov titled “First Print”, which includes the line – “To us from the darkness of a thousand comes unhurried Russian speech.” The students then watched the documentary film on various launches of spacecraft.
The Russian Center presented its plans for a number of events in honor of Cosmonautics Day and invited all students to participate not only in this campaign but also in other events planned by the Yerevan State University.
Arusyak Neresyan,
Director of the Russian Center at Yerevan State University
