Cosmonaut Sergey Korsakov to meet with Bishkek residents and visit his school

In honor of the Cosmonautics Day and the 145th anniversary of the capital, Events will be held in Bishkek with the participation of cosmonaut Sergey Korsakov, a native of Kyrgyzstan. This was reported by the press service of the mayor's office.

According to her, the cosmonaut was born on September 1, 1984 in Frunze. On March 18, 2022, he launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Soyuz MS-21 manned transport spacecraft to the International Space Station as flight engineer No. 1 of the spacecraft. He returned to earth on September 29, 2022. The flight duration was more than 194 days.

During his visit to Bishkek, Sergey Korsakov will lay flowers at the bust of the world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at school No. 25 and at the memorial plate on the BSU building, meet with teachers and students of school No. 24, where he studied, as well as with the finalists of the essay competition among schoolchildren of the capital.

On April 13, a meeting is scheduled with the leadership of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic and leading scientists. There will also be an open meeting with Sergey Korsakov at the National Historical Museum "The Road to the Stars Begins in Bishkek". On the same day, the film "Time of the First" will be shown (at 18.00 in the National Historical Museum of the Kyrgyz Republic).