Greek Orthodox hierarch visits Baikonur Cosmodrome

Kazakhstan, June 16, 2010

A Russian Orthodox priest blesses the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft at Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 1, 2010. (VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP/Getty Images) A Russian Orthodox priest blesses the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft at Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 1, 2010. (VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP/Getty Images)
Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogaia and Laureotiki is on a visit to Russia with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and at the invitation of the “PONTOS” International Union of Greek Public Associations of the CID countries. The hierarch of the Greek Orthodox Church is accompanied by archpriest Grigoriy Pigalov, rector of the Church of the Most Holy Mother of God near Athens.

The Soyuz TMA-18 rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan April 2, 2010. A U.S.-Russian crew blasted off in the Russian Soyuz spaceship on Friday for a half-year odyssey aboard the International Space Station. (REUTERS/Carla Cioffi) The Soyuz TMA-18 rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan April 2, 2010. A U.S.-Russian crew blasted off in the Russian Soyuz spaceship on Friday for a half-year odyssey aboard the International Space Station. (REUTERS/Carla Cioffi)
On 16 June 2010, the guests from Greece visited the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and saw the launch of the “Soyuz TMA-19″ spaceship with an international crew led by a Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (Grammatikopoulos), a Greek by birth.

6/21/2010

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