“I remember that day: I am a third-year student, we had a lecture on partial differential equations (this is mathematics), and we fled from the lecture to Leninsky Prospekt.
Yuri Gagarin was driving past, and I waved to him a meter away, "he shared his memories in an RT video on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space flight.
According to Sadovnichy, the manned flight into space was an event that shook the whole world.
“Space is a sea, an ocean, it is unknown and will never be known ... Space exploration, space topics are a huge problem that humanity needs, and it will always be the first,” said the rector of Moscow State University.
Earlier, People's Artist of Russia Oleg Mityaev recalled how cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, during a flight in space, asked him to come to the Mission Control Center and sing for the crew.