Proton-PM (included in the integrated NGO structure Energomash of Roscosmos State Corporation) provided financial and organizational support to the annual scientific and popular activity of Yuri’s Night dedicated to the Day of Cosmonautics.
The event opened an online lecture of the chief designer NGO Energomash Peter Lövochkin “Perm Rocket Engines: History and Perspectives.” Peter Sergeevich spoke about the premises of the development of domestic cosmonautics, the contribution of Valentina Glushko to engineering developments, on how the international political situation and the country’s economic welfare influenced the rocket engine. Speaker speaker completed the prospects for the organization in the Serial Motor Manufacturing of the RD-191 engine for the Angara rocket. After lecture, Peter Levochkin answered questions from the hall, including the advantages of the new carrier and the fate of the Buran spacecraft.
Proton-PM sponsored the show of Pavel Medvedev’s document “Climbing” (2008). On his shooting director inspired the first piloted flight of the Chinese astronaut, held in 2005. The tape is a compilation of the documentary chronicles of the 1960-70s and the early 2000s and shows this period of time from different sides. The film was caused by a storm of emotions in the audience and left a lot of questions, due to the inexpensiveness of the position of the author and the eclecticity of the installation. The film is included in the program of the Future.doc – 2021 scientific cinema festival program, which also takes place this week in Perm.
In 2021, Yuri’s Night was held in the Triumph Private Philharmonic. The event was broadcast on YouTube-channel and in the VKontakte organizers group, so there was a wide coverage. Online lecture Peter Levochkin is viewed more than 500 times.
Andrei Shishkin, Deputy Director for Personnel Proton-PM: “Cosmonautics Day – Favorite Professional Protonian Festival. We are pleased to divide the joy from the success of the rocket and space industry with all the perm and help them spend this day with benefit. Proton-PM Always glad to support youth research and popular initiatives implemented at urban and regional levels. ”
In the framework of the Party Program, lectures of speakers from the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the topic of psychological training of astronauts to flights were also organized, and directly inclusion with the young astronomer Konstantin Batygin from the California Institute of Technology – the author of the hypothesis of the existence of the ninth planet of the Solar System was organized.