Life and Creativity of Svetoslav Roerich and his meetings with designers of Yuzhnoye Design Office in India under the Intercosmos program

Abstract

The article tells about the main milestones in the life and career of the outstanding artist, thinker and public figure Svetoslav Roerich. There are also talked about Soviet-Indian cooperation under the Intercosmos program and about the meetings of designers and scientists of the Yuzhnoye Design Office with Svetoslav Roerich in the framework of this cooperation. Information obtained using the interview method became significant for the authors. Using this method, it was possible to collect interesting and rare information from the designers of spacecraft from the Yuzhnoye Design Office, as well as to get their memories of the meetings with Svetoslav Nikolaevich in the Tataguni estate near the Bangalore city in the 70s of the 20th century. It was the Bangalore where the Soviet and Indian cooperation took place, as a result of which the first Indian satellites Ariabhata and Bhaskara appeared. The successful launch of these satellites contributed to the creation and establishment of the national space program of India.