German Titov's memorial museum complex opens in Altai

GORNO-ALTAISK, August 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Restored memorial museum
complex of cosmonaut number two German Titov opens on Saturday after
reconstruction at his native place - the Polkovnikovo settlement of the
Altai Territory.
The opening ceremony will feature his colleagues Boris Volynov and
Viktor Gorbatko, and Titov's widow Tamara and their daughters Tatyana and
Galina.
The re-opening of the museum was scheduled to coincide with the Year
of Space, which Russia declared for 2011, and with the 50th anniversary of
his space flight on August 6-7, 1961. Titov then made an orbit flight on
board Vostok-2, making 17 spins around the Earth and covering over 700,000
kilometres.
The key of the exposition are the space spacesuit and a model of the
spacecraft Vostok-2. Visitors will be able to read documents of the
flight, see rare photographs, telegrams, newspaper materials from Russian
and foreign press. The renovated museum complex' visitors will learn not
only interesting facts from German Titov's life, his friendship with Yuri
Gagarin, but also much interesting, which relates Altai with the space.
For example, they will learn that the first woman cosmonaut Valentina
Tereshkova landed precisely on the ground of Altai - in the Baevsk
district.
The complex comprises two buildings: a Memorial - school, where German
Titov studied, and modern one. There are exhibition halls, storage
facilities, a stage and offices there.
On the opening day of the museum complex in Polkovnikovo, there will
be a big celebration with fireworks and an air show.