12Apr/110
Happy Cosmonauts Day!
Yekaterinburg is celebrating 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight into outer space. On April, 12th at 12 there were 12 salvos of paper rockets in the historical center by the dam.
Among 108 Russian cosmonauts there was only one from the Urals – Vitaly Sevastyanov. But probably one of those children will travel to space in the future too!
- Let's not forget that the first travellers into space were two Russian dogs Belka and Strelka!
There were former pilots and all types of aliens at the fest:
... and dancing girls from the police academy.
Who said that Russian policemen are rude and angry?
The highlight of the fest - a gallery of children's paintings about life in outter space
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