Friends, today — April 12 — the country in which I live — Russia — celebrates "Cosmonautics Day". It's strange — to wage war and be proud of space achievements at the same time. Personally, I can't understand it. But nevertheless, the first manned flight into space — it was performed by Yuri Gagarin in 1961 — is a world achievement, and our common big step into the Universe.
But on this day I decided to tell you a slightly different story — the story of the exploration of Venus by the space stations «Venera 13» and «Venera 14». There is a rather lengthy story about them in the description of this single.