Center for Training of Cosmonauts visited winners of “Reli-sky” competition from Komi Republic

On Wednesday, May 19, 2021, the Center for Training of Cosmonauts named after Yu.A. Gagarin visited schoolchildren and students from the Republic of Komi. A trip to the cradle of manned cosmonautics – their reward for victory in the Creative Tractor Competition in the Sky, which was timed to the 60th anniversary of the flight of Yuri Gagarin to Cosmos.

The Tractor Competition in the Sky was held for schoolchildren of grades 9-11 and for students of secondary special and higher educational institutions Komi. From January to March 2021, work was taken on five nominations: drawings, photos, poems, stories and essays. The main topic was the first flight of a person in space.

the jury determined ten winners – schoolchildren and student in each nomination. These are young people aged 15 to 22 years old: Amin Musina (Vorkuta), Maria Abidova (Inta), Nikanor Tolstoy (Vorkuta), Pavel Istomin (Sosnogorsk), Vladislav Medvetsky (Ukhta), Alina Babenko (Sysolsky district), Alexey Pavlov (Syktyvkar), Ekaterina Buklovskaya (Princepogostsky district), Diana Torlopov (Syktyvkar) and Kirill Shiryaev (Syktyvkar). The head of Komi Vladimir Ubya personally followed the successes of the participants of the “thrust in the sky” contest.

As a reward, the winners of the competition received a ticket to a star town, where they took place a tour of the center of the training of astronauts. By tradition, she began with the laying of flowers to the monument to Yuri Gagarin. During the acquaintance with the center of the guys, a planetarium, a hydrolaboratory, where the cosmonauts are exhausting the exit skills to open space. Lays of the orbital complex “Peace” and the international space station made a big impression on them.

“I learned a lot of new, for example, that we have a special pool in Russia, where astronauts are trained, and that they are sigh of the vertical position on the ISS,” said the participant of the competition from Ukhta Vladislav Medvetsky.

The guys showed what simulators are used in the preparation of crews, and in addition, they tried to manage Boeing on an interactive device. Excursion excursion with a cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov.

“such excursions on which the guys can meet with astronauts see the simulators are very important. Watching guests from Komi, I saw how interested they are. This is the best of the best, I hope that in the future they will be able to contribute to Development of Russian and world cosmonautics. I believe in them and I wish that such guys there were more, “Salizhan Sharipov said.

All winners of the “thrust in the sky” competition The organizers presented diplomas and souvenirs of the stellar town.

/Media reports.