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UNESCO Sponsors Online Access to Soviet Space Programme Photos

Yuri A. Gagarin

Parts of the famous photo collection of the Soviet Pace Programme held by the Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documents are now on-line available. UNESCO sponsored the establishment of the unique photobank containing more than 1700 photos with their descriptions. The new service, which is accessible on the website of the State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documents, provides free text search possibilities and lists the digitized photos according to pre-established categories.

"This is an excellent example of providing worldwide on-line access to information that is in the public domain" says Victor Montviloff from UNESCO's Communication and Information Sector which earlier this year signed an agreement with the Federal Archival Service of Russia (Rosarhiv) and Abamedia, a USA based media development and production company, to co-operate in the Russian Archives Online (RAO) project. RAO, which includes the Space Programme Photo Project, aims to provide an Internet-based medium for the viewing, searching and licensing of audiovisual materials held by State and other archives and museums in Russia.

The Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documents, located in Moscow, holds scientific and technical documentation concerning industrial development, patents, and personal papers of well-known scientists, scholars, inventors, and engineers. But perhaps the most interesting materials are those related to the Soviet space program, which includes not only technical documentation, but films, photographs, and audio recordings of the historic achievements made in rocket design and space travel.

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Voctor Montviloff, UNESCO, Information Society Division

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