Meeting with the Cosmonauts: 1980

Crimean Television, 1980. The video shows the Shchelkovo District of the Moscow Region: a flower-laying ceremony at the monument to Yuri Gagarin in Zoryanoye, and the presentation of the Yuri Gagarin “Star Pennants” to the country’s top land reclamation specialists; the awards are presented by Soviet cosmonauts G. Beregovoy and V. Kovalyonok; among the recipients is I. Malyshev, an excavator operator at the “Krymkanalbud” trust and a Hero of Socialist Labor.

The video features propaganda and Soviet symbols.

We are publishing this video as part of the “Crimea Archives” initiative: a joint project of Public Broadcasting and the Central State Audiovisual and Electronic Archive.