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On April 17, students of the Minsk Radio Engineering College visited the Mikhail Savitsky Art Gallery, where the presentation of the exhibition project “The First..”, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of the first cosmonaut Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, took place.
As part of the opening of the exhibition, a meeting was held with pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation, Hero of the Russian Federation Denis Vladimirovich Matveev.
The meeting was organized with the support of the Representative Office of Rossotrudnichestvo in the Republic of Belarus.

Denis Matveev tried to pay attention to each participant in the dialogue. He said that he always dreamed of becoming an engineer and got into the cosmonaut corps by accident, although he had been familiar with the life of Star City for a long time, because his father works in his medical unit. What fascinates Denis Matveev most on the ISS is the state of weightlessness, which he misses on earth. Cosmonauts are very worried before going into outer space, so they sacredly respect all safety measures, and it is very difficult for them to endure the descent to earth, when a serious load is placed on the body. And another thing is that the preparatory period before the first flight can last for years. And this is not only physical and physiological improvement, but also an educational process, including learning a foreign language, because there is also an American segment on the ISS. “If you feel that you are strongly drawn to some business, there is no need to break yourself, although listening to the advice of your elders will not harm anyone. Do what you like, and, looking back, you will understand that it was the right one way. Take care of your health from a very young age, be friends with physical education and study. The world is becoming more and more crazy, the amount of information in it is growing, and in order to keep track of it, you need to work hard and develop,” the guest of honor instructed the children. I also thanked them for the interesting conversation.