Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of forms and methods of Soviet scientific and technical propaganda in the 1960s and 1970s. The main focus is on ways to promote Soviet space achievements. The article is based on archival documents, as well as on the materials of a number of popular magazines of this period. The following issues were carefully considered: the organization of scientific and technical propaganda in the USSR; methods of censorship control. The general conclusions of the study give an idea of two forms of coverage of scientific and technical achievements in the Soviet press of this period. The organization of scientific and technical censorship, in which the key role belonged not to the Glavlit, but to experts of branch research institutes and the Academy of Sciences, is also analyzed in detail.