Among the 600 applications of the selection at the All-Russian Festival “Open Cosmos” were allocated about 180 participants from 36 regions of Russia. For two days, schoolchildren were able to get acquainted closer with space: they visited a tour of the star town, met and talked with the pilots-cosmonauts and specialists of the Russian rocket and space industry, staged a race on Rowers, were able to enter outdoor space in virtual reality, passed ” Issues “and much more.
On April 10, 2021, the final of the World Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics took place the Final Festival in the center of “Cosmonautics and Aviation” at the VDNH with the participation of honored guests: Advisor to the General Director of the Foundation for the Innovation Foundation Ivan Bortnik, Head of the Presidential Department of Public Projects of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergey Novikova , Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Denis Gribova, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Peter Kucherenko, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Khokhlov, Director of the Department of Prospective Programs “Sphere” Roskosmos State Corporation, Sergey Prokhorov, Executive Director of the Russian Movement of Schoolchildren Irina Shchechechev and Oksana Leon’s daughter pilot-astronaut, twice Hero of the USSR Alexey Archupovich Leonov.
Teams from the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Kursk Region, St. Petersburg and the Novosibirsk Region, whose technological projects have become the best, received valuable prizes from the organizers – the All-Russian Public-State Children’s and Junior Organization “Russian Schoolchildren Movement”.
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The All-Russian Social and State Children’s and Youth Organization “Russian School Studies” was established by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on October 29, 2015. The purpose of the organization is to improve the state policy in the field of education of the younger generation and promoting the formation of a person based on the inherent value system of values. Currently, the Russian movement of schoolchildren unites over 500,000 children and 19,000 educational institutions from 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation and implements 27 federal projects of various focus: ecology, volunteering, media, sport, design, self-government. Three enter the national project “Education”.