Day on February 25 in the history

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29 years ago (1992) the Russian space agency was formed at Government of the Russian Federation (nowadays ROSKOSMOS STATE CORPORATION). Agency was created by the decree President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin instead of the Ministry of the general mechanical engineering supervising all space-rocket branch of the country abolished in November, 1991. Koptev Youri was appointed the first head of agencies. In 1999 of RKA it was transformed to Russian Aviation and Space Agency, and in 2004 — to ROSKOSMOS STATE CORPORATION. In 2015 on base ROSKOSMOS STATE CORPORATION and...