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The premiere of the Embracing the World documentary will take place at the V Tsiolkovsky International Space Film Festival

Currently, work on the Embracing the World documentary dedicated to Yuri Gagarin is underway. The films settings are very diverse.

The interview with Ruslan Bayramov, President of The Dialogue of Cultures – United World International Charitable Public Foundation, was recorded at Etnomir, the largest ethnographic park–museum in Russia, located in the Kaluga Region. The Ruslan Bayramov Foundation has been preserving the legacy of the first cosmonaut for many years in memory of his feat.

Maxim Kharlamov, head of Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center, cosmonaut pilot from the first cosmonaut detachment of the USSR, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Boris Volynov, cosmonaut pilot of the Russian Federation, Hero of the Russian Federation Oleg Artemyev and test cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev talked with the film crew at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. And the director of its Museum, Natalia Talanova, gave an interview at the Cosmonauts' House in Zvyozdny Gorodok near Moscow.

The premiere the documentary will take place at the V Tsiolkovsky International Space Film Festival. It will be held in Kaluga from April 12 to 16, 2024 and will be dedicated to the 90th birthday of Yuri Gagarin, as well as to all Soviet and Russian cosmonauts.

Embracing the World documentary is being filmed by ANO "May 9" with the support of the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives.

The Tsiolkovsky International Space Film Festival in 2024 is held with the support of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives, the Roscosmos State Corporation and the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, the Government and the Ministry of Culture of the Kaluga Region, the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, the Association of Planetariums of Russia, the Nika TV Company and other public and commercial organizations. TASS is the main media partner of the festival.

In the photo: Ruslan Bayramov, Boris Volynov, Oleg Artemyev, Andrey Fedyaev.