Cosmonaut Oleg Kotov visited Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building factory

At the invitation of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Office of the Union of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Reshetnevsky Readings” of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Reshetnevsky Readings” was the hero of Russia, the pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation Oleg Kotov.

One of the items of the Volume Visit program was to visit the Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant (Krasmash, part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”). At the enterprise, Oleg Kotov met with the general director Alexander Gavrilov, visited the Museum of History Krasmash, and also talked with young people.

“The first impression from the factory is the scale of solved tasks, only the listing of those directions that you have had to do, suggests that this is a multi-tasking, multidisciplinary, specialized enterprise that is easily and quickly rebuilt on the creation of new products,” shared Impressions of the cosmonaut seen at the factory museum.

We add that the photos of Oleg Kotov are part of one of the exhibitions of the VDC, dedicated to the creation of an Olympic torch for Sochi-2014. It was Oleg Kotov with his colleague Sergei Ryazansky for the first time in world history conducted a space stage of the Olympic relay, making a torch created at the Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant, beyond the International Space Station.

The factory museum staff asked the astronaut to leave the autograph in the historic photo. A large amount of time on Krasmash Oleg Kotov devoted to communicating with young people. He gladly told about his space experience, and also answered the questions of the guys who were interested in future interplanetary flights, scientific experiments and experiments on board, non-standard and memorable situations during their stay at the station, the life of astronauts and many others.

Oleg Kotov also told youth, including those who participated in the creation of the Sochi Olympic Torch-2014, about what difficulties had to face the Krasmashevskaya product in space.

“The main difficulties were not damaged and not to lose the torch during the exit. It had to independently make the fastening system on it so that the torch could be transmitted in space. In addition, plastic is fragile enough in vacuo, especially in the shade, where the temperature is minus 180 -200 degrees, so I had to handle the torch very carefully, as with a child, to carry in the hands, so that you can’t knock anywhere. At the same time, it was necessary to hold themselves and move outside the station, “said Oleg Valeryievich.

Completing the meeting, the cosmonaut handed up with Krasmazhev activists thanks for active work and personal participation in the youth movement of CRO CMR.

/Media reports.