I'm Sergey Gusev, First Deputy of the National Space Agency. We are at the Space Agency's first control station located 20km from Evpatoria.
I'm the communications director at the National Space Agency. There are no radio telescopes like this in the world. It's the most beautiful one.
On February 12, 1961 the first test of the Venus satellite was accomplished by the Pluton ADU1000 facility; exactly where we are now.
The antenna is unique in how it was designed and constructed! The bottom is made from a ship.
If you go higher it's made from a railway bridge. And at the top holding eight antenna feeds is a real submarine.
The antenna fully rotates in azimuth and elevation. The eight dishes are more than 30m above ground.
Total surface area of the antenna is over 1000 m2. Up until the end of the last century numerous studies of the universe were conducted here.
I've been riding my BMX bike since I was 14 years old; always thinking about new tricks and spots.
While traveling throughout Ukraine and abroad I have seen many places I would like to ride, but this place is something special.
US astronaut Frank Borman once said, "Only Russians could think of creating such an antenna from these materials."
I just finished my ride on this antenna. Such a cool ride! If there wasn't so much wind it would have been easier to do more tricks.
The wind and height did not allow me to perform all the tricks that I could do on the ground.