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