Fountain of the Soviet Nationalities Sixteen, including the short-lived Karelo-Finnish SSR
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
Originally built for the Soviet Pavilion at the 1937 World Fair in Paris.
Cosmos Museum
This is a new cosmonanautics museum just opened at VDNKh.
Cosmos Museum Pavilion
A full-scale Vostok mockup
Buran mockup
Vostok-1
To my utter amazement, the Cosmos Museum had temporary loan of Gagarin's original Vostok-1 capsule. Oh wow!
I've wanted to see this for years.
It was on temporary loan from the RSC-Energia Musuem at Korolev City. A sacred relic indeed!
Scotsman with Vostok-1
Remainder of Cosmos Musuem
Sadly, other than the Vostok-1 capule, most of the rest of the museum of only mockups or samples.
Vostok control panel
R-7 Rocket engine
Mockup of Almaz-1 space station Unmanned military reconaissance station
Mockup: reusable return verhicle for Almaz-1
Sample Soyuz capsule
Cosmonautics Museum
Monument to the Conquerors of Space
Monument to the Conquerors of Space
Korolev statue
Korolev statue
Gagarin bust
Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics
Now one of three Cosmonautics museums around Moscow!
Vostok-1 Replica
Belka, Strelka, and return capsule. (But RSC Energia claim to have the original.)
Belka
Strelka
Museum Note Buran and Almaz return module mockups
Soyuz TM-7 (1988) "Cosmonauts in the Snow"
Soyuz TM-7 rear
Michael Collins Spacesuit
Soyuz-37 (1980)
Soyuz-37 (1980)
Gagarin's Medals
"Lenin is more alive than the living. Our knowledge is power and weapons." (1959) The quote is from an epic poem by Vladimir Mayakovsk.
Young Pioneer poster (1961) (But I can't find any data on an actual Soviet Pioneer-7 rocket
Modern museum poster With Belka and Strelka
RSC Energia Museum
I've been trying to get into the RSC Energia Museum at Korolev City for years. I finally made it!
RSC Energia Museum Entrance With protective deities and guide.
Original Belka and Strelka capsule Including the original return sub-capsule
Kosmos-110 A 22 day "Dogs in Space" mission, 1966
View of capsule outer wall
Vosotok-1 hatch cover
Vostok-6 (Valentina Tereshkova) (1963)
Three man Voskhod-1 (1964)
Voskhod-2 (first spacewalk)(1965) Original capsule, but replica airlock
Three Soyuz-class return capsules
Soyuz 3 (1968)
Unmanned Zond 5 (1968) Circled the moon and returned safely to Earth
Soyuz T3 (1980)
Soyuz-19 (1975) Used in Apollo-Soyuz Mission
Soyuz TM-14 (1992)
Soyuz TMA-13 (2008)
Sputnik-2 + Laika (replica)
Sputnik-3 (replica)
Luna-9 (Replica)
Molniya-1 Communications Satellite (replica)
Full-scale Apollo-Soyuz Mission mockup
Full-scale Mir mockup
Mir mockup interior
A relic of the difficult 1990s
Relics of the difficult 1990s
Korolev's Office
Scotsman at Korolev's desk
Korolev's funeral
Korolev ID card
Gagarin and Korolev, Korolev City
Cosmonaut mosaic, Korolev City
Central Museum of the Armed Forces
Hall of Victory
Banner of Victory
Nazi banners used in Vict
Gary Powers' U-2 (1960)
Soviets and US forces meet up.
Normandy Landings
"Power to the Soviets" (1987) Painting of revolutionary heroes. Note the imp-like Trotsky on the far left.
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