“We are constantly working towards declassifying the most interesting historical materials,” RIA Novosti quoted the representative of the corporation as saying.

Earlier, Roskosmos reported that from the Baikonur Cosmodrome 60 years ago, on September 12, 1959, the Soviet Luna-2 spacecraft was launched, which then became the first object in history to reach the Moon.

Documents such as M.K. Tikhonravova "On the artificial satellite of the Earth", a reference on the flight paths to the moon, a resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the development of the first spacecraft, designated as "objects E", and others.