Russia to Name Town After Space Pioneer

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Russia to Name Town After Space Pioneer Tsiolkovsky

VOSTOCHNY COSMODROME, April 12 (RIA Novosti) - President Vladimir Putin proposed on Friday naming a future town near the Russian Vostochny space port after the father of the Soviet space program, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.

“I think it will be right if, after consulting it with the local residents, we will call the future town Tsiolkovsky,” Putin said on Friday, as Russia celebrated Cosmonautics Day marking the first manned space flight on that date in 1961 by Yury Gagarin.

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Tsiolkovsky the founder of all space flight, a true genius and visionary. And today Putin also said that Roscosmos will be upgraded, and that in the future there may be a ministry of the cosmos. If so it will be the first among all nations. Tsiolkovsky's vision will continue, humanity will reach the stars. Soon I hope