# Moon landing anniversary in Russia

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 21, 2019, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-landing-anniversary-in-russia/837386 "2019-07-21T02:44:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-landing-anniversary-in-russia/837386/1 "2019-07-21T02:44:25Z")

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Was the moon landing anniversary acknowledged in Russia? Short of celebrating it, was it even mentioned in Russian media?

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**Author:** ![mako88sb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@mako88sb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mako88sb)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-landing-anniversary-in-russia/837386/2 "2019-07-21T05:03:02Z")

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Here’s a pretty good link about it:

> <https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/15023/what-was-the-internal-soviet-reaction-to-the-moon-landing>

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**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-landing-anniversary-in-russia/837386/3 "2019-07-21T08:00:22Z")

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Not much, it looks like. I just had a little search for Аполлон 11 and the top result is the Russian version of the BBC! Plus a number of minor news sites I haven’t really heard of.

RT managed to write their [article](https://www.rt.com/news/464638-moon-landing-resources-colonization/) on he subject without ever having to explicitly say “America got there first”

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**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-landing-anniversary-in-russia/837386/4 "2019-07-21T08:17:05Z")

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To be fair though, it doesn’t look like the US media was writing many articles about Yuri Gagarin eight years ago. Google search pulls up an Atlantic piece, and then it’s mostly the BBC again and “[space.com](http://space.com)”

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**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-landing-anniversary-in-russia/837386/5 "2019-07-21T14:01:31Z")

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> [@Aspidistra](#):
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> To be fair though, it doesn’t look like the US media was writing many articles about Yuri Gagarin eight years ago.

Although lots of American cities have a [Yuri’s Night](https://yurisnight.net/) party on April 12 every year, an I understand it was especially well attended 8 years ago.