The Roskosmos State Company and the all-Russian project “Many Peoples – One Fatherland” have prepared a gift for all Russians for April 12 – congratulations not only on Cosmonautics Day, but also on the 200th anniversary of the Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky.
In honor of these important dates, Denis Matveev, test cosmonaut of the Yu A. Gagarin TsPK Scientific Research Institute, read an excerpt from Ostrovsky’s The Marriage of Balzaminov directly from the cosmonaut training center.
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went into space aboard the Vostok satellite. Yuri Gagarin’s flight will always remain a world heritage, the pride of the achievements of Russian science. Cosmonauts, engineers, designers, test pilots, graduates and teachers of private universities from all over our multinational Motherland made an invaluable contribution to the development of the space industry.
He also noted that today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the greatest Russian playwright Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, the author of more than 50 plays, which today form the basis of the Russian theatrical repertoire.
“You don’t need anything, just be happy. The Russian proverb speaks the truth: “Don’t be born smart, don’t be born handsome, don’t be born happy,” the astronaut quoted the classic, wishing everyone to be happy and not forget that there are many people, but one homeland!