The theme of space holds a special place in the history of photography. In the ROSPHOTO collection, it is represented quite extensively: these include photographs related to the first space flights, the construction of Baikonur, images obtained from the Meteor series satellites, as well as contemporary photographs taken from orbit by cosmonaut Mikhail Baturin.

The exhibition project features more than 60 original photographs, archival materials from the collections of ROSPHOTO and the GS Group investment and industrial holding, as well as rare books from the Dunaev family collection.



Неизвестный автор
Неизвестный автор
Гагарин Ю. А. на ВДНХ
1965
РОСФОТО КП 1138/004
Попов Лонид Иванович
Попов Лонид Иванович
«На борту станции «Салют». Космическая работа»
1981
РОСФОТО КП 1141/023
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In the exhibition “Our Cosmos,” the theme of space steps out of textbooks and ceremonial reports, becoming a living space of human faces, gestures, and moments. On the exhibition walls are rare images of Yuri Gagarin across different years, scenes of preparations for spaceflights and returns to Earth, and encounters where cosmonauts were welcomed as heroes by millions. 

Visitors will see a chronicle of triumphs — the launch sites of Baikonur, the liftoff of the Voskhod rocket, the Soyuz spacecraft before launch, and the first test launches of Energia and Buran. The exhibition brings together striking scenes: Fidel Castro inside the Soyuz spacecraft, doctors of the Cosmonaut Training Center alongside astronauts on simulators, Gagarin’s meeting with foreign journalists, and photographic portraits of orbit pioneers bearing their autographs.

The exhibition is a joint project of the State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO and the Russian investment and industrial holding GS Group. 

On April 12, we mark a double anniversary: 65 years since Yuri Gagarin’s first spaceflight and 35 years of GS Group. The holding, whose core expertise lies in the development and production of radio electronics, is based in the historic building of the former Vulkan plant in St. Petersburg, where the first cosmonaut completed his practical training in 1955. Social investment is an essential part of GS Group’s culture: preserving historical memory, supporting science and technical education, and, in particular, maintaining a careful and respectful approach to the heritage of Russian space exploration.

This exhibition is one such initiative: it brings together the history of spaceflight and the history of technology, people in spacesuits and those at factory machines and drafting tables — all who made space a heroic part of our country’s history.




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