Medal - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ND

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Rocket.

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering:
ОСНОВОПОЛОЖНИК
ТЕОРИТИЧЕСКОЙ
КОСМОНАВТИКИ

Translation: Pioneer of the astronautic theory

Comment

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857 – 19 September 1935) was a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. Along with the French Robert Esnault-Pelterie, the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics. His works later inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers such as Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko and contributed to the success of the Soviet space program.