/ world today news/ It is fair to return the name of 138 secondary school, which until 1993 was called “Yuri Gagarin”, believes the chairman of BSP – Sofia and the group of socialists in SOS Ivan Takov
Many sites in Sofia are named after Yuri Gagarin, including two streets. I sincerely hope that he will not fall victim to the crude political propaganda, started by the “Russophobes” in Bulgaria to satisfy their conjunctural political wishes. This was said by the chairman of BSP – Sofia and of the group of socialists in SOS, Ivan Takov. He, the deputy chairman of the Sofia organization of the party, Ivan Peshev, and citizens laid flowers on the memorial plaque of Yuri Gagarin in the capital’s 138th secondary school “Prof. Vasil Zlatarski” on the occasion of the International Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics.
Takov recalled that until 1993, 138 SOU was called “Yuri Gagarin”, but the then political conjuncture, which is repeated today, replaced it with that of Prof. Vasil Zlatarski – a prominent Bulgarian historian, one of the largest and most authoritative researchers of the Bulgarian state in the Middle Ages.
“With the campaign launched in recent weeks for naming and renaming various objects in Sofia, I think it is fair to return the name to 138 secondary schools as well. Not for conjunctural reasons, but for school historical justice to prevail”, believes the chairman of the BSP – Sofia.
Exactly 61 years ago today, Gagarin took off aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft and circled the Earth. Thus he became the first man in history to fly into space. This 108-minute flight marked the beginning of manned spaceflight.
In 1961, Gagarin made a world tour, and Bulgaria was the second country he visited. Upon his arrival in our country, he visited the 138th school, accepted to become its patron and planted a spruce tree in its yard. This is the first tree from the later dedicated “Cosmonauts Alley” in the school. After him, the first and second Bulgarian cosmonauts Georgi Ivanov and Alexander Alexandrov, Valentina Tereshkova – the first woman to fly in space, cosmonauts Nikolay Rukavishnikov and Pavel Popovich planted pine trees there with their own hands. The school also has a Museum of Cosmonautics.
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