Space test

On April 12, on World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day, journalists from the TV2 news agency asked Tomsk residents who the monument on Kirov Square, located near the NPO Polyus, was dedicated to.

Let us remind you that the memorial complex was opened on June 8, 2011. The composition of the monument represents a small copy of the Cosmos series rocket, which is used for remote sensing of the earth, navigation, television, and communications. In stylized space orbits of the Earth there are copies of the first satellite. The composition is completed by a monument to Pyotr Vasilyevich Golubev, an honorary citizen of Tomsk, a man who led the enterprise for 30 years.

During Golubev's work, Polyus became a large design and research enterprise. Polyus was developing equipment for spacecraft, as well as instruments for rocketry research.

Young Tomsk residents passing by the monument did not know who it was erected to. Among the versions it turned out that this is a monument to the great cosmonaut and Tomsk residents who want to fly into space.

Representatives of the older generation were more familiar with the history of the monument. They explained that the company was developing fillings for space rockets. One of the Tomsk residents noted that Pyotr Golubev is “the pillar of our space industry, but now we don’t see anyone like him.”