President of Russia Vladimir Putin watched Salyut-7, a film that will be released at cinemas soon, and met with the film’s director, actors and producers.
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| Vladimir Putin with cosmonauts, members of the 1985 expedition Vladimir Dzhanibekov (right) and Viktor Savinykh after the screening of Salyut-7. |
The film is based on true events. On February 11, 1985, the Mission Control Center lost contact with the Salyut-7 orbital space station. The station that had been uninhabited for six months went out of control. The crew of Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh, the most experienced active cosmonauts at the time, was sent to Salyut-7. Their task was to perform the first ever docking with a drifting spacecraft, establish the cause of the malfunction and bring the station back online. The flight to Salyut-7 is considered to have been the most complicated flight in the history of cosmonautics. The film directed by Klim Shipenko stars Vladimir Vdovichenkov and Pavel Derevyanko.
The screening was attended by former cosmonauts and members of the 1985 expedition Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh, pilot and cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, Head of the State Corporation for Space Activities Roscosmos Igor Komarov, first cosmonaut Yury Gagarin’s daughter Yelena Gagarina and the film’s producers Anton Zlatopolsky, Sergei Selyanov and Bakur Bakuradze.
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| Actor Pavel Derevyanko before the screening of Salyut-7. |
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| Vladimir Putin during Salyut-7 screening. |
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| Vladimir Putin with cosmonauts, members of the 1985 expedition Vladimir Dzhanibekov (right) and Viktor Savinykh. |
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| Before the meeting with Salyut-7 film crew. Center: Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, two-time Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Dzhanibekov and first cosmonaut daughter Yelena Gagarina. |
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| Vladimir Putin before the screening of Salyut-7. |
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| President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the meeting with Salyut-7 film crew. |
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| Salyut-7 stars Vladimir Vdovichenkov (left) and Pavel Derevyanko. |
