Astrophilately and Space Philately in Kremlin.
On April 12, 2011 the Gala Concert honouring Cosmonautics Day was held in the State Kremlin Palace, Moscow. The event was devoted to the 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin space flight.
Before the Concert, President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev congratulated everyone on the Cosmonautics Day (photo by Sergey Rodin).
A lot of cosmonauts and astronauts from different countries, delegates from Space Agencies of foreign countries, veterans of Soviet / Russian space industry were invited to the concert.
Boris Chertok (born 1 March 1912) is a prominent Soviet and Russian rocket designer, responsible for control systems of a number of ballistic missiles and spacecraft; he was deputy to the founding figure of the Soviet space program, Sergey Korolev.
The Honorary guests of the event were Valentina Gagarina (Yuri Gagarin’s widow), Galina and Elena Gagarins (Yuri Gagarin’s daughters), Natalya Koroleva (Sergey Korolev’ daughter), Svetlana Medvedeva (Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s wife)
Cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov and Valentina Gagarina (photo by the Press-Service of Russian President).
In the State Emblem Hall of the State Kremlin Palace the Russian Federal Space Agency prepared the exposition about Russian achievements in Space explorations.
Igor Rodin, Chairman of the FIP Section for Astrophilately, was invited to take part in the Exposition.
The first right - cosmonaut Sergey Treschjov; the second right - cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka; the 3rd left - cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko; the forth left - cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov.
Igor Rodin is telling about his exposition to cosmonaut Vasiliy Tsibliev (left) and his wife.
The main editor of "Cosmonautics News" monthly magazine (left) and Igor Rodin.
