Today at S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, and in Korolev and Moscow, ceremonies were held to commemorate this anniversary.

At RSC Energia museum there was an award ceremony for winners and participants in the contest of young scientists and specialists for 2001 Academician S.P.Korolev Prize instituted by Administration of the town of Korolev. Prizes , diplomas and medals of contest winners were awarded to young employees of the Corporation: A.S.Anfalov (1st prize), A.L.Polovtsev (2nd prize) and S.N.Nosachev (3rd prize). Diplomas from the Head of the town and books were also given as souvenirs to other active participants in the contest among whom there were two representatives of RSC Energia.

The contest winners and participants were greeted by: N.S.Koroleva (a daughter of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev), Corporation managers and specialists, representatives of town Administration and general public, a deputy of the Moscow region Duma V.M.Baranov.

Then the managers and representatives of the company employees, of the town Administration and general public, assiciates of Sergei Korolev and veterans of the Corporation, S.P.Korolev's relatives laid flowers at memorial plaques and monuments to the outstanding scientist and designer that are located on the territory of the Corporation and the town of Korolev, as well as in the Alley Of Cosmonauts in Moscow. Flowers were also laid at the Kremlin wall, at the burial places of S.P.Korolev and world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.