Abstract
"Space bridge"—this term is a quite recent entry into our language, but it has already consolidated a firm hold. Leningrad-Boston, Moscow-Vladivostok-Tokyo, Moscow-Sofia, Moscow-Kabul, Tiumen'-the Twentieth Congress of the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth League. … Not a week goes by without a space bridge on the screen. At times they are gripping, vividly dramatic events. More often, they are exchanges of various kinds of information, seasoned with musical numbers. Space bridges have become so common that one sometimes thinks, "Is it really worth putting so much time and effort into them, when the results are so unimpressive?"