The participants of the All-Russian Motor Trokek “Our Cosmos – 60. Yuri Gagarin” organized by the All-Russian motoclub “Night Wolves”, visited the eastern cosmodrome. The motor race is held with the support of Roscosmos State Corporation and is devoted to the anniversary of the first flight of a person in space. On eastern motorcyclists, the starting and technical complexes of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle were visited, the scale of the starting complex was estimated for heavy missiles “Angara”.
Russian motorcyclists also met with young specialists of the new Russian cosmodrome. Motorcyclists responded to questions about what their life principles, how they chose their journey and what impressions they had left from their stay on the cosmodrome. “Night Wolves” visited the temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the city of Tsiolkovsky of the Blagoveshchensky Diocese and passed the icon of the Holy Apostle Matvey, visited the Museum of Cosmonautics of the Cultural and Leisure Center “East”, where the work of the finalists of the competition of children’s drawings “Space – 60. Yuri Gagarin “Schools No. 18 and No. 17, Krasnogorsk.
The program of visiting a cosmodrome ended with the observation of the “Soyuz-2.1b” carrier missile with the Frigate accelerated block and 36 satellites of the OneWeb digging, which successfully took place on July 1, 2021.
Motor race started on June 10 in the city of Moscow and runs along the route: Moscow – Moscow region – Yekaterinburg – Omsk – Zmeinogorsk – G. Krasnoyarsk – East Kosmodrom – Khabarovsk and Finishes July 15 in G . Vladivostok.