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| Korolyov, Moscow Oblast  FeatureType : city Elevation : 159 Lat/Lng : 55.9203 / 37.8314 | Korolyov or Korolev is an industrial city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, well known as the cradle of Soviet and Russian space exploration. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 183,402. The largest in the population of science city. The population is more than 220 000 people (2018) (...) |
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| Tretyakov Gallery FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 130 Lat/Lng : 55.7414 / 37.6203 | The State Tretyakov Gallery (Gosudarstvennaya Tretyâkovskaya Galereya; abbreviated ГТГ, GTG) is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world. The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by (...) |
| 3 | Sergei Korolev FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 62.9992 / 148.235 | Sergei Pavlovich Korolev ("Korolëv" is the transliteration used by the Library of Congress and adopted by James Harford for his biography (Harford 1997, p. xvi). also transliterated as Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, Serhiy Pavlovych Korolyov; – 14 January 1966) worked as the lead Soviet rocket engineer (...) | |
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| Vostok 1 FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 113 Lat/Lng : 45.9203 / 63.3422 | Vostok 1 (East or Orient 1) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first manned spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to cross into outer (...) |
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| Plesetsk Cosmodrome FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 62.917 / 40.517 | Plesetsk Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport located in Mirny, Arkhangelsk Oblast, about 800 km north of Moscow and approximately 200 km south of Arkhangelsk, dates from 1957. Originally developed as an ICBM site for the R-7 missile, it also served for numerous satellite launches using the R-7 and (...) |
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| Zhytomyr FeatureType : null Elevation : 228 Lat/Lng : 50.2544 / 28.6578 | Zhytomyr is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Zhytomyr Oblast (province), as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Zhytomyr Raion (district). The city of Zhytomyr is not a part of Zhytomyr Raion: the city itself is designated as its (...) |
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| Almaty FeatureType : city Elevation : 746 Lat/Lng : 43.2775 / 76.8958 | Almaty , formerly known as Alma-Ata and Verny (Vernyy), is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of 1,797,431 people, about 8% of the country's total population. It served as capital of the Kazakh state in its various forms from 1929 to 1997, under the influence of the then Soviet Union (...) |
| 8 | 1855 Korolev FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 3.0 / 0.0 | 1855 Korolev, provisional designation , is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. Discovered in 1969, it was later named after Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev. (...) | |
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| Voskhod 2 FeatureType : null Elevation : 239 Lat/Lng : 59.5667 / 55.4667 | Voskhod 2 was a Soviet manned space mission in March 1965. The Vostok-based Voskhod 3KD spacecraft with two crew members on board, Pavel Belyayev and Alexey Leonov, was equipped with an inflatable airlock. It established another milestone in space exploration when Alexey Leonov became the first (...) |
| 10 | Vladimir Komarov FeatureType : null Elevation : 271 Lat/Lng : 51.3616 / 59.5624 | Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (; 16 March 192724 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member (...) | |
| 11 | Energia (corporation) FeatureType : null Elevation : 161 Lat/Lng : 55.9222 / 37.8 | PAO S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia , also known as RSC Energia (RKK “Energiya”), is a Russian manufacturer of ballistic missile, spacecraft and space station components. The company is the prime developer and contractor of the Russian manned spaceflight program; it also owns a (...) | |
| 12 | Nedelin catastrophe FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 91 Lat/Lng : 45.9754 / 63.6598 | The Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster was a launch pad accident that occurred on 24 October 1960 at Baikonur test range (of which Baikonur Cosmodrome is a part), during the development of the Soviet ICBM R-16 (...) | |
| 13 | Bauman Moscow State Technical University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 138 Lat/Lng : 55.7658 / 37.6847 | The Bauman Moscow State Technical University, BMSTU , sometimes colloquially referred to as the Bauman SchoolFrom 1868 till 1898 Bauman University was called : Imperial Moscow Technical School, and Superior Moscow Technical School or Baumanka is a public technical university (Polytechnic) located in (...) | |
| 14 | Korolev and Gagarin Monument FeatureType : null Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 47.205 / 38.9393 | Korolev and Gagarin Monument (Russian: Памятник Королёву и Гагарину) is a bronze sculpture of Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev by the sculptor O. Komov. It was installed in Taganrog on Chekhov Street in front of the building "A" of the Engineering and Technology Academy of the Southern Federal (...) | |
| 15 | Baltic Fleet FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 54.7167 / 20.5167 | The Baltic Fleet is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea. Established 18 May 1703, under Tsar Peter the Great as part of the Imperial Russian Navy, the Baltic Fleet is the oldest Russian Navy formation (...) | |
| 16 | NKVD FeatureType : null Elevation : 171 Lat/Lng : 55.7606 / 37.6281 | The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del), abbreviated NKVD (listen), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. Established in 1917 as NKVD of Russian SFSR, the agency was originally tasked with conducting regular police work and overseeing the (...) | |
| 17 | Yuri Gagarin FeatureType : null Elevation : 160 Lat/Lng : 56.0466 / 39.0265 | Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He became the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961 (...) | |
| 18 | Venera 3 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 0.0 / 70.0 | Venera 3 (meaning Venus 3) was a Venera program space probe that was built and launched by the Soviet Union to explore the surface of Venus. It was launched on 16 November 1965 at 04:19 UTC from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, USSR (...) | |
| 19 | Wernher von Braun FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1159 Lat/Lng : 47.5156 / 10.4008 | Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German (and, later, American) aerospace engineer and space architect. He was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the father of rocket technology and space science in the United (...) | |
| 20 | R-12 Dvina FeatureType : null Elevation : 334 Lat/Lng : 49.3458 / 27.4431 | The R-12 was a theatre ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Its GRAU designation was 8K63 (8K63U or 8K63У in Cyrillic for silo-launched version), and it was given the NATO reporting name of SS-4 Sandal (...) | |
| 21 | NASA FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 38.8831 / -77.0164 | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research (...) | |
| 22 | Soyuz 1 FeatureType : null Elevation : 271 Lat/Lng : 51.3615 / 59.5622 | Soyuz 1 (Union 1) was a manned spaceflight of the Soviet space program. Launched into orbit on 23 April 1967 carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov, Soyuz 1 was the first crewed flight of the Soyuz spacecraft (...) | |
| 23 | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash FeatureType : event Elevation : 81 Lat/Lng : 57.5519 / 40.1212 | The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred on 7 September 2011 when Yak-Service's Flight 9633, a Yakovlev Yak-42 charter flight carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl (...) | |
| 24 | Butyrka prison FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 168 Lat/Lng : 55.7845 / 37.594 | Butyrka prison (a colloquial term for the official , Butyrskaya tyurma) is a prison in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow, Russia. It was the central transit prison in Tsarist Imperial Russia. During Soviet times, it held many political prisoners (...) | |
| 25 | Vostok 2 FeatureType : null Elevation : 74 Lat/Lng : 50.8528 / 47.0205 | Vostok 2 (Orient 2 or East 2) was a Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day on August 6, 1961 to study the effects of a more prolonged period of weightlessness on the human body (...) | |
| 26 | Vostok 3 FeatureType : null Elevation : 2986 Lat/Lng : 42.0333 / 75.75 | Vostok 3 (Orient 3 or East 3) was a spaceflight of the Soviet space program intended to determine the ability of the human body to function in conditions of weightlessness and test the endurance of the Vostok 3KA spacecraft over longer flights (...) | |
| 27 | Moscow Monorail FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 144 Lat/Lng : 55.8314 / 37.6461 | The Moscow Monorail is a long monorail line located in the North-Eastern Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia. It runs from the Timiryazevskaya via Fonvisinskaya and VDNHa metro stations to Sergeya Eisensteina street. The monorail line currently has six stations (...) | |
| 28 | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology FeatureType : edu Elevation : 197 Lat/Lng : 55.9294 / 37.5214 | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology , known informally as PhysTech , is a Russian university, originally established in Soviet Union. It prepares specialists in theoretical and applied physics, applied mathematics and related disciplines (...) | |
| 29 | Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture FeatureType : null Elevation : 168 Lat/Lng : 55.7644 / 37.6362 | The Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture was one of the largest educational institutions in Russia. The school was formed by the 1865 merger of a private art college, established in Moscow in 1832, and the Palace School of Architecture, established in 1749 by Dmitry Ukhtomsky (...) | |
| 30 | Luna 9 FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 233 Lat/Lng : 7.1333 / -64.0667 | Luna 9 (Луна-9), internal designation Ye-6 No.13, was an unmanned space mission of the Soviet Union's Luna programme. On 3 February 1966 the Luna 9 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon. (...) | |
| 31 | TogliattiAzot FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 97 Lat/Lng : 53.5428 / 49.6186 | TogliattiAzot is a Russian chemical company, that has been described as the world's largest ammonia producer.http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco343/012Compecon/Soviet/010418Togliatti.txt It is headquartered in Tolyatti, Russia (...) | |
| 32 | Sergei Pavlovich Korolyov Museum of Cosmonautics FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 226 Lat/Lng : 50.253 / 28.6776 | The Serhiy Pavlovych Korolyov Museum of Cosmonautics is a technology museum in Zhytomyr, Ukraine dedicated to Serhiy Korolyov. Korolyov led the Sputnik project and was Chief engineer for the Soviet Union's rocket and space program from the late 1950s until his death in 1966 (...) | |
| 33 | Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 41 FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 91 Lat/Lng : 45.9754 / 63.6598 | Site 41 was a complex of three launch pads at the Baikonur Cosmodrome originally built for flight testing of Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBMs) using storable propellant. The need to develop such missiles was determined by low-tactical-technical and operational characteristics of the first (...) | |
| 34 | August 1965 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 15.1667 / 117.6667 | The following events occurred in August 1965: (...) | |
| 35 | Anti-satellite weapon FeatureType : null Elevation : 1863 Lat/Lng : 28.247 / 102.025 | Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic military purposes. Several nations possess operational ASAT systems, with others in development or design (...) | |
| 36 | Yuzhmash FeatureType : null Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 48.4362 / 34.9885 | The Production Association Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant named after A.M. Makarov, PA Pivdenmash or PA Yuzhmash is a Ukrainian state-owned aerospace manufacturer. It produces spacecraft, launch vehicles (rockets), liquid-propellant rockets, landing gears, castings, forgings, tractors, tools, and (...) | |
| 37 | Voskhod 1 FeatureType : null Elevation : 342 Lat/Lng : 52.0333 / 68.1333 | Voskhod 1 (; Восход is Russian for Sunrise) was the seventh manned Soviet space flight. In October 1964 it achieved a number of "firsts" in the history of manned spaceflight, being the first space flight to carry more than one crewman into orbit, the first flight without the use of spacesuits, and (...) | |
| 38 | Burials at the Novodevichy Cemetery FeatureType : null Elevation : 128 Lat/Lng : 55.7247 / 37.5544 | == Notable burials: A–C == *Sergey Afanasyev (1918–2001), first Soviet space industry minister *Ivan Agayants (1911–1968), a KGB officer and foreign spy *Sergei Aksakov (1791–1859), a writer *Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov, (1905–1994), leader of the Alexandrov Ensemble (...) | |
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