Space exploration enthusiasts (1918-1971)

A portrait of S.P. Korolev in a mourning frame on the facade of the Column Hall of the House of Unions on January 18, 1966. A funeral procession with wreaths on Red Square.

An honor guard at the burial site of the urn with Korolev's ashes in the Kremlin Wall.

Cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev at Baikonur before launch in 1971. A cameraman films.

The cosmonauts wave goodbye.

Cosmonauts aboard the orbital station conduct research.

View of the Earth's surface (top).

Destruction of the monument to Alexander III in the Kremlin in 1918. Photograph of S.P. Korolev as a child. K.E. Tsiolkovsky rides a bicycle past his house in Kaluga in the first half of the 1930s.

Tsiolkovsky's house in Kaluga.

Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow, monument to Tsiolkovsky near the monument.

Monument to S.P. Korolev.

Photographs of the gala evening in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in honor of Tsiolkovsky's 100th birthday and Korolev's speech at the evening.

Launch of the launch vehicle of the first artificial Earth satellite on October 4, 1957. Posters for lectures by engineer F.A. Tsander on space flights, 1924. Photo portrait of F.A. Tsander.

Poster for Vetchinkin's lecture on interplanetary travel.

Photograph by V.P. Vetchinkin.

View of part of Sadovo-Spasskaya Street (from above).

Memorial plaque on house no. 19, where the Jet Propulsion Study Group (GIRD) was located in 1932-1933. The names of Tsander and Korolev are on the memorial plaque.

Star of the Vostok-1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961. Aircraft designer B.I. Cheranovsky demonstrates a model of a flying wing aircraft.

Cheranovsky's aircraft takes off.

Photographs of Korolev among the engineers developing the first jet engines in the mid-1930s.

Photo portraits of Korolev in 1937.