On April 10, 2022, FinU foreign students visited the Moscow Planetarium. The tour was organized by the International Students and Faculty Department. The event was devoted to Cosmonautics Day.
As part of the tour, FinU foreign students visited the Urania Museum and watched a full-dome show with projection to the Planetarium spherical roof in the Big Star Hall.
The museum’s first level is dedicated to the Planetarium history where you can see and listen to the lecture on how the Universe cognition process developed through the tools and methods. Also, here you can see the Astronomer-Stargazer, surrounded by old books, engravings, tools – everything that is necessary for studying science. In the section devoted to the Planetarium history there are many photographs, documents, books, and equipment items that clearly demonstrate events and facts from the history of the Moscow Planetarium from 1929 up to now. The students listened to a lecture about the history of Astronomy and the main constellations, saw the first models of starry sky projectors and models of spacecraft.
On the second level of the Urania Museum, you immerse yourself in the world of heavenly bodies where you can see globes of the Earth, Moon, Mars and Venus, our closest neighbors in Space. Each planet is unique in its own way. A deserted, silent Moon with dark seas, light continents and craters of various sizes. Red mysterious Mars with giant volcanoes, polar caps and endless labyrinths. Here the guides told the students about the solar system, elaborating on the description of various planets and asteroids.
After the tour of the Urania Museum, the students attended a full-dome show in the Big Star Hall. The Planetarium dome turned into the night sky and the students saw a performance about the spring constellations, the reasons for the Earth rotation and the planets’ movements.
The tour was attended by 30 foreign students from 20 countries, including: Abkhazia, Afghanistan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Italy, Kirghisia, Moldova, Mongolia, Peru, Transnistria, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, and Montenegro.
Throughout the tour, the students showed their interest and asked questions to the guides, afterwards they thanked the guides and the Department for the visit to the Moscow Planetarium.
Student Reviews:
“I would like to thank the International Students and Faculty Department for organizing this tour and the atmosphere of astronomy and space together with other FinU foreign students, especially before the holiday – Cosmonautics Day!”
Parmanova Chachykei, Kirghizia
“Thank you so much for the invitation to this tour, it was very interesting and I will leave a good memory of it”.
Bentivoglio Carlotta, Italy
“Thank you very much for the invitation to this tour. It was very interesting for me to feel the atmosphere of the Planetarium and space”.
Ha Xuan Thang, Vietnam
“I want to thank you for a very interesting tour! I learned a lot of new things and had a good time! Thank you very much to the organizers!!!”
Sergey Moskalev, Belarus
“I also want to join the guys and thank you for this opportunity to see something new and interesting for yourself!”
Irina Leontiev, Moldova
“I would like to thank the organizers and the guys who were with us today! Another wonderful tour, which I will remember all my life. Thank you for this opportunity!”
Evgenia Petrova, Bulgaria
“Thank you very much for today’s tour. It was great fun. Thanks to the Department and Anton Fenev for organizing today’s excursion”.
Warong Maria Marlein, Indonesia
“Today I would like to thank the University for giving us the opportunity to visit the Planetarium. I am very happy and impressed”.
