For every person his birth place means a lot. For one it is a family, for
another it is a country, but for me it is my native town. The name of this town
is Baikonur. I was born there and it tookthebiggest part in my heart.
Baikonur is a young town. It was built in 1955. The first settlers were
military people. They lived under very difficult conditions: severe climate,
tents instead of houses, bad water.
But in spite of all these
hardships the first in the world artificial sputnik, the first man from the
Earth Yuri Gagarin and other astronauts were launched into space from this
land.
Nowadays the Cosmodrome of Baikonur is the unique scientific, technical
and social complex. There are a lot of research space centers, rocket and space
enterprises and launching pads there.
You can’t imagine how nice
and pretty my native town especially in spring. When I livedthere, my friends
and I used to walk in the parks, pick up wild tulips in the steppe on the bank
of the Syr-Daria River, and take a curative shower in the fountain of mineral
water.
I remember almost every tree, everyplay ground
where I played with my friends, monuments to famous rocket designers such as
Korolyov, Yangel, Nedelin and others. When I was inBaikonur I had a sense that
I lived on the other planet may be on Mars.In the streets and squaresI could
see modern buildings and models of famous rockets. Children liked to climb in
the rockets and imagine that they were cosmonauts.
Baikonur is a multicultural town. People from Russia, Belarus, the Ukraine,
and Kazakhstan live and work there. It is cool! We had a lot of holidays during
the year. We celebrated Russian Easter and Kazakh Nauriz; we ate Russian
pancakes at Maslenitsaand enjoyed shashlik andbeshbarmak. We learnt to respect
traditions of differentpeople. I am proud of my native town. I would like to
dedicate my poem to Baikonur:
Baikonur is a wonderful place
It will always the world amaze.
Intelligent people launch rockets there.
They do their job, honest and fair.
Rain or shine…
Rockets will fly.
People live and work among the steppe.
They explore other planets step by step.
But the time comes and the people go
To other countries but I do know
Rain or shine…
Rockets will fly.
Now I live and study in a beautiful town Vladimir which has a long history.Vladimir
isn’t alike Baikonur. I am proud of Vladimir because it played a role of a
capital in Rus. It is a mixture of old and modern architecture. Ancient
churches, cathedrals change modern buildings. Also I would like to add that
Vladimir is a motherland of many outstanding people such as: admiral M. P. Lasarev, the poet A.I. Fatyanov, the statesman
M.M. Speransky and others. But walking
along Vladimir’s streets I still remember Baikonur, I really miss my
birthplacewhere a lot of friends are lived.
To draw the conclusion, I can say that I have two
birthplaces one where I was born another where I live and study.
Сибирина Елена Рудольфовна © 2024
