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International Space Station cosmonaut joins Russian poetry seminar – BBC News
Sergey Ryzhikov logs into the Zoom session on Russian poetry in York while orbiting the Earth.
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image captionCommander Ryzhikov read some of Lermontov’s work on the video call
A cosmonaut made an appearance at a British university seminar from the International Space Station (ISS).
Dr Shane O’Rourke, from the University of York, was discussing a Russian poet when station commander Sergey Ryzhikov joined the Zoom call.
He read some of the works by writer Mikhail Lermontov being analysed during the session.
“It was amazing, it was so clear and everything…
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