GAGARIN exhibition in Ljubljana; KSEVT project update

On Wednesday, April 6, 2011, an exhibition about Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin and the 50-year mark of his historic space flight entitled "Nebo je črno, Zemlja je modra" ("The sky is black, the Earth is blue") opened at the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Ljubljana, Slovenia [location link]. The exhibition opening was accompanied by a special visitor: cosmonaut Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko, who was born in the year when Gagarin became the first man in space. Malenchenko is one of the foremost active cosmonauts today.

The event itself also featured Iva Zupančič, a highly acclaimed Slovene actress, who relived her memories of seeing Yuri Gagarin on the day of his public reception at the Red Square in Moscow; and an excerpt of "Zvezdno mesto" ("Star City"), the opera-piece-in-making (composed by Dragana Jovanović).

This exhibition is a project of KSEVT (Cultural Center of European Space Technologies), the author of it is Miha Turšič and the co-author Dragan Živadinov, both active members of this institute. It represents a small sample of a larger exhibition which will be set in Vitanje, Slovenia, after the opening of KSEVT building in October 2011.

Opening hours are every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., but after April 24, the exhibition will be moved to the premises of the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia.

P.S.: Below there is a short feature video clip of the exhibition press conference, courtesy of Dnevnik Newspaper. And one other thing: KSEVT also has a new official website - here.