🇷🇺🤝🇮🇳 #OTD We celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the historic Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation between the USSR and the Republic of India!

📆 On August 9, 1971, in Delhi, Foreign Ministers Andrei A. Gromyko and Sardar Swaran Singh signed this crucial document, which laid the foundation for a long-term partnership between two countries.

🟣The treaty enshrined the principles of mutual respect, equality, and non-interference in internal affairs, as well as outlined ways of cooperation in economic, scientific, and technical spheres. This agreement became a symbol of friendship and trust between the peoples of the USSR and India, making a significant contribution to strengthening peace and stability in the region!

🟣Today, Russia-India relations enjoy Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership!

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#OTD 🇷🇺🇷🇺Belka and Strelka are dogs that spent a day in space aboard 🇷🇺Korabl-Sputnik 2 (Sputnik 5) on 19 August 1960 before safely returning to Earth.

🟣They were the first higher living organisms to survive an orbital trip in outer space

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🇷🇺⛲️ #OTD On 20 August 1721, the first launch of the famous fountains and cascades, which are a monument of world hydraulic art of the 18th-19th centuries, took place in Peterhof.

🟣The works on the creation of the ensemble continued for two centuries. They involved outstanding architects Leblon, Miketti, Zemtsov, Rastrelli, Felten, Shtakenshneider. Thanks to their labours, the estate with small palaces turned into the “capital of fountains” - a pearl of world architecture.

🏰 Today Petrodvorets is a world-famous open-air museum city. There are 10 museums and three parks open for viewing. There are three cascades and 173 fountains in the Upper Garden and the Lower Park.

📸 by Peterhof Museum website

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🇷🇺 #OTD, on September 14, 1959, 65 years ago, the Soviet automatic interplanetary station "Luna-2" reached the surface of the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to touch another celestial body.

🌓 Launched on September 12 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, "Luna-2" made a journey that ended in the Sea of Rains region near the craters Aristillus, Archimedes and Autolycus.

🟣The "Luna-2" mission was the second most important event in the history of cosmonautics after the flight of Yuri Gagarin, demonstrating the advanced achievements of the Soviet space program. Major scientific achievement is the first direct measurement of the solar wind and confirmation of the Moon's lack of a significant magnetic field and radiation belt.

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