D. Medvedev to award Kazakhstani cosmonauts for space exploration
16:30, 12 April 2011
ASTANA. April 12. KAZINFORM /Damir Baimanov/ President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev will award Kazakhstan's cosmonauts Tokhtar Aubakirov and Talgat Mussabayev with states prizes - medals for space exploration. Envoy of the Russian Embassy to Kazakhstan Sergey Tarasenko has said it today in Astana.
'I know that Kazakhstani cosmonauts Tokhtar Aubakirov and Talgat Mussabayev are in Moscow now and they will be given awards for space exploration. As far as I know the medals will be given by Dmitry Medvedev, personally,' he said.
According to him, the award was just recently introduced. It will be given to many foreign cosmonauts who have explored the outer space on Russian spacecrafts.