Soviet Space Dogs
Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York CityPlease join us for a talk with Olesya Turkina, Senior Research Fellow at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, about her book Soviet Space Dogs (FUEL Design & Publishing, 2014). Soviet Space dogs were part of Soviet propaganda, perhaps even one of its most demonstrative forms. Unlike Yuri Gagarin, the first human to orbit the Earth, Laika, Belka and Strelka…