On April 13, 2021, at 12: 00 pm, a solemn meeting of the SPIIRAS section at the Scientific Council of the SPC RAS was held, dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the first human space flight performed by Yuri A. Gagarin. The Scientific Council gave floor to the following presenters: Head of the Laboratory of Information Technologies in System Analysis and Modeling, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Boris V. Sokolov, Head of the Laboratory of Applied Informatics and Problems of Information Society, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Rafael M. Yusupov and the Director of the SPC RAS, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrey L. Ronzhin. A thematic issue of the journal Informatics and Automation was published for the holiday date: http://proceedings.spiiras.nw.ru/index.php/sp/issue/view/742
