To the 60th anniversary of the first human space flight

In 2021, Russia celebrates the 60th anniversary of the first manned flight into space. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin was the first in the world to fly into space, opening up the roads of stars to mankind. In honor of this event, the Russian House Brussels has prepared a number of thematic events. We invite you to participate in the celebration of this anniversary and get a little closer to the to the distant stars of our galaxy.

Films about space in the selection of the Russian House Cinema Club in Brussels

A journey into outer space?

The Russia Today project
gives you the opportunity to have
a 360° view of space 

The footage is shot from space in a 360° format. The project consultant is a first-class test cosmonaut and hero of Russia, Alexander Kaleri.

Each of us imagines
space in different ways…

Documentary and feature films about space by the USSR and Russia

Whether there is life on Mars is unknown to science, but that only makes the starry depths more tempting…

Space is an interesting
and frightening beauty

In February 1986 the Proton-K rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, putting the first modular of the Mir station into orbit…

Not only do the two terms for “space travellers” have different pronunciations, they also have different meanings…

Wheat, peas, onions and lettuce in space… dreams of growing plants in space have taken a huge step forward…

“…Let us drift away into the shimmering glow of fiery worlds,

and fly through all the twists and turns of interstellar clouds…”

Aleksey Tolstoy, Kir Bulychev and other Russian authors who have written about the mysterious and distant

Upcoming events…

Photo exhibition «The Amazing Earth»

4 April | 10:006 May | 17:00

Exhibition “OUR GAGARIN”

12 April | 10:0031 December | 17:00

As we celebrated…