MainAuthors Daria A. Afonskaya postgraduate student of social sciences; Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University; St.Petersburg, Russian Federation Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) , St. Petersburg, Russian Federation ARTICLES: An Episode from the Cold War Era Space Race: The Creation of the "Dunaev Coating" at the Leningrad Physicotechnical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the 1950s and Early 1960s History and Modern Perspectives — Issue №2 2026: 220-227