In Ufa, opened the "Gagarin Center"


    “Just don’t expect much,” commented the head of the Ufa cosmoschool, Alexei Allikas, about the news that had been sent to me about the opening of the Gagarin Center Center for Technical Education for Schoolchildren in Ufa. Naturally, I became curious, and I decided to attend this event. I bring to your attention a small report on what was there and whether my expectations were met.

    For many years, the school Olympiad "Gagarin Cup" has been held in the Republic of Bashkortostan . Its organizer, Vadim Kurilov, decided to go further and create a platform for additional training, on which the winners of the Olympiad and other interested people will be able to attend. In the curriculum, in addition to aerospace subjects, classes in robotics, information technology, mathematics, and 3D modeling are also expected.

    Gagarin Center is located in the former Bashkiria Shopping Center, which is now called the Lifestyle Center. Nowadays, good and useful organizations live there, for example, the Invoice creative space has recently provided a platform for the popular science lecture hall of the Evolution Foundation with Alexander scinquisitor Panchin and Alexei Vodovozov. At the same time, shops still come across there, and the entrance to the Gagarin Center looks a little funny next to jeans and other prose of being:



    Obviously, I came too soon. Having stumbled a little, I get to the cafe where the participants of the event are going. Time passes interestingly, for example, where else will you talk to the person who overslept the second launch of N-1, when a rocket weighing almost three thousand tons fell to the start and exploded? I kept asking what hydrazine smells like, but, alas, I didn’t get a clear answer. Cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalenok and Alexander Balandin appear , I am getting impudent and taking selfies with them, but, alas, everything is ruining my crooked hands and poor lighting. Children are more lucky:



    A rally concert is planned in the program. But the rain pours completely mercilessly, and the rally is moved inside the building. A very representative delegation gathered at the opening of the center:


    From right to left: Cosmonaut Alexander Balandin, deputy. Head of the Administration of Ufa, Syntimir Bayazitov, Rector of the Ufa State Aviation University Nikolay Krioni, Education Minister Gulnaz Shafikova, cosmonaut Sergei Revin, cosmonaut Vladimir Kovalenok, poetess and deputy of the State Assembly of the Republic of Belarus Yumabik Ilyasova

    There will be a ceremonial ribbon cutting:


    Inside is interesting. Well-furnished audiences with technical nishtyak:


    Beautiful portraits:


    Pictures of pioneers and titans of astronautics also hang on the walls. As expected, there were some overlays, for example, Keldysh, and not Pilyugin.


    Cosmonaut Sergei Revin and the younger detachment of the Ufa cosmoschool. Sergei in Ufa happens very often, takes part in various events, last year, for example, students contacted the ISS. This can not but rejoice.


    Immediately after this photo, a correspondent addressed me with questions, and the astronauts didn’t get there, I carried for about ten minutes, I hope, not a complete nonsense under the general motto “Let there be more space, because space is cool” and fell out of the way a bit. However, everything was already slowly ending.

    If you didn’t have enough photos, there are video reports:


    And on the BST website .

    On the whole, the Gagarin Center exceeded my expectations. It turned out that I know its leader - several years ago I worked at a college with Igor Nuikin. We did not communicate directly, but I can confidently say that he works in his specialty and has experience. I am glad that the center received rather big and well-equipped rooms. In a global sense, it is far from a fact that the children who will study in this center will become exactly the astronauts. But they will be techies and, scientists or engineers, will still move forward the progress of mankind.
    Already leaving, I heard from my ear that five years ago the idea of ​​such a center was supported by the Head of the Republic, Rustem Khamitov. If this motion vector is preserved, then even if the flying astronaut from Ufa does not appear, then through the efforts of the Gagarin Center, the Ufa cosmic school Alexei Allikas and the modest educational efforts of your humble servant, the cosmos will become more in Ufa life.

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