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55 years ago on this day, June 16, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go into #space piloting Vostok-6 for almost three days and orbiting the Earth 48 times. space.com/21571-valentin… 📷: Kremlin.ru

See the Breathtaking View from a Russian Soyuz Rocket As It Launches into Space goo.gl/Ut1oqH

On May 22, 1911, Boris Rosing, scientist and television inventor, was the first to transmit a television image. His first working non-mechanical television, which included his own innovations, was patented four years prior. In 1918, he founded Kuban University.

Nikolai Makarov, known for designing the semi-automatic Makarov pistol, was born on May 22, 1914. This weapon was a standard sidearm for police and the military in the USSR after 1951.

The new bridge linking the Crimean peninsula and the mainland seen from #space. 📷: Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov on board the ISS

Foreign coverage of Gagarin’s flight in 1961. 🌎🚀 #space

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into outer #space and orbit the Earth on Vostok-1. 🚀

Street cars (trams) first began to operate throughout Moscow on April 6, 1899. 🚋

Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in #space, was born on March 6, 1937. She piloted Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963. Tereshkova orbited the earth 48 times and spent almost three days in space.

Transport airplane An-22, the largest aircraft in the world at that time, carried out its first flight on February 27, 1965. This airplane model is responsible for 41 world records.

Moscow State University turns 263 years old. 📚🎓 Painting: F. Alekseev, 1800s; photo: mirmgu.ru.

Several major intersections in Moscow introduced additional lighting on street light poles, also changing color to green, amber, and red, as an improved safety measure.

World’s oldest facility of its kind, the Cosmonaut Training Center—currently named after Gagarin—was established in Star City outside Moscow on January 11, 1960. Star City first opened its doors to NASA astronauts in 1973. #space

IL-62, a long-range narrow-body jet airliner, made its first flight on January 2, 1963.

Luna-1 interplanetary station was launched on January 2, 1959. It was the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon as well as the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. #space nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft…

A Soviet expedition was the first in the world to reach the pole of inaccessibility (the point in Antarctica furthest from any ocean) on December 14, 1958.

Ivan Pavlov was the first Russian to receive the Nobel Prize—in Physiology and Medicine—on December 10, 1904. He is best known for his work in classical conditioning—Pavlov’s dogs.

Russia’s Be-200 aircraft could help fight California wildfires. santamariatimes.com/news/local/off…

Venera (Venus)-3 probe was launched on November 16, 1965 carrying USSR insignia and reached Venus in March 1966—the first spacecraft to impact on the surface of another planet. #space nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft…

Trans-Siberian railroad—spanning across Eurasia—became operational on October 18, 1916. Today, it is the longest railroad in the world.