Training of Soviet cosmonauts (1977-1986)

A sculpture of a cosmonaut in Star City.

People walk with open umbrellas, it's raining.

Sightseers in one of the halls of the Cosmonautics Museum in Star City.

Faces of sightseers.

The face of a tour guide.

Residential buildings in Star City.

Mothers with children strolling in the park.

A shopping mall building.

People walking in the mall.

A boy in his underwear walks on the street.

A woman with a small child descends the stairs.

A panorama of residential buildings in Star City.

Cosmonauts Romanenko and Grechko during training for their flight in 1977. Romanenko and Grechko in orbit aboard the spacecraft.

Cosmonaut training center staff at their control panels, cosmonauts during training.

A cosmonaut's face during a simulator test.

An electrocardiograph machine for monitoring the cosmonaut's heart during artificially induced G-forces.

Cosmonauts undergo medical examinations after training.

Cosmonauts undergo testing on special equipment simulating the G-forces of space.

Exterior of the isolation chamber.

Training center staff at their control panels.

Closing a special capsule.

Operation of equipment and test simulators.

Underwater training for cosmonauts.

The Mir orbital station's hull, designed for cosmonauts to study its hardware.

Cosmonauts in spacesuits enter the spacecraft cabin for a practical test.

Cosmonauts completing a mission.

Members of the prime and backup crews prepare for flight in the Mir station's hull.

Cosmonauts during training to control the spacecraft and orbital station.

Members of the space crew leave the training hull of the Soyuz-TM spacecraft.