The history of the museum, located in a building that originally housed a boarding school for visually impaired children, dates back to 1969. After the tragic death of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the students of this school proposed creating a school museum in memory of him. On the 40th anniversary of the first manned space flight, in April
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The first Soviet radio telescope, installed 21 kilometers from the city of Simferopol on the Crimean peninsula. The radio telescope began its work in 1962, its main purpose is to accompany the launches of automatic spacecraft designed to study the Moon, as well as other planets of the Solar System. The reflector diameter of the TNA-400 radio telesc
Gagarin Field, located at the landing site of Yuri Gagarin after his historic flight into space, is a memorial complex that was recognized as a “landmark site of federal significance” in 2012. This complex is included in the “Park of Space Conquerors”, the first stage of which was opened in April 2021. The first monuments at Gagarin's landing site
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