Sergey Pavlovich Korolev (1949-1966)

Launch of a prototype rocket at a test site.

Testing a nuclear bomb, view of a nuclear explosion. S.P. Korolev and his military escorts walk past the wagons that delivered the equipment.

Launch of a spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Korolev during space rocket tests at Baikonur.

Spacecraft in front of the launch pad.

Korolev at the launch pad during preparation of the spacecraft for flight, general view of the spacecraft.

Preparation of the first artificial Earth satellite for flight in 1957. Photograph of K.E. Voroshilov presenting an award to Korolev in the Kremlin.

Employees of the design bureau at the drawing boards.

Checking one of the spacecraft units.

View of the first artificial Earth satellite, preparing it for flight.

View of the Earth from space.

Testing a space antenna.

Yu.A. Gagarin as part of the first cosmonaut detachment during a theoretical lesson on the material part of the spacecraft.

Manufacturing of the bodies of the descent vehicles.

Training of cosmonauts, monitoring of their medical parameters using special equipment in 1960-1961. Assembly of the spacecraft, testing of its individual units and assemblies, cosmonauts during training.

Korolev at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Gagarin in the bus heading to the launch site.

Gagarin and members of the State Commission walk to the launch site, Gagarin begins to ascend to the elevator.

The spacecraft before the launch.

Korolev at the command post gives Gagarin instructions over the radio, Gagarin on board the spacecraft before the launch.

The launch of the Vostok-1 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961. The spacecraft taking off.

Gagarin's face during the flight.

Views of the earth's surface from space.

View of the lower part of the spacecraft being launched.

Korolev talks with one of his colleagues.

View of part of the spacecraft before the launch.

Korolev talks with members of the cosmonaut corps and with colleagues.

Korolev sees Titov G.S. off on his flight.

Korolev's face.

Korolev's photograph.

Cosmonaut A.G. Nikolaev, accompanied by members of the State Commission, walks to the spacecraft (above).

Korolev's face.

Nikolaev is standing on the platform of one of the levels, Korolev is waving goodbye to him and applauding.

Panorama of the spacecraft launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome (above).

Forest stream.

View of part of a summer cottage village.

Interior views of rooms and an office at Korolev's dacha, telephones on the table, a bedroom.

Luminous windows of the dacha, the lights go out.

Korolev descends the steps of the plane, Korolev is met at the airfield, Korolev listens to one of his colleagues meeting him.

Korolev inspects one of the spacecraft compartments.

View of the spacecraft during assembly, assembly of part of the spacecraft.

Korolev is holding a meeting of engineers and designers, faces of the meeting participants.

Korolev is making notes on a document, listening to speeches of the meeting participants.

Korolev is speaking at various meetings.

Korolev with telephone receivers in his hands at the command post during space technology testing.

Korolev speaks from the podium.

Korolev at the command post during rocket and space technology testing, officers at the consoles.

View of the upper part of the rocket before the launch.

Korolev sees off cosmonaut A.A. Leonov on his flight in March 1965. Korolev writes the text of the plan for a manned spacewalk, a fragment of the text and a drawing.

Leonov's spacewalk.

Korolev hugs Leonov after returning from the flight.

Panorama of a meeting of space technology engineers and designers, at which Korolev is present, one of the meeting participants makes a report, Korolev speaks at the meeting, faces of the meeting participants.

A spacecraft in near-earth orbit, a cosmonaut in open space, journalists watch the spacewalk on monitors.

A spacecraft in a hangar.

A monument to Korolev at the Kremlin wall.

The launch of a spacecraft.

The guard of honor at the coffin of S.P. Korolev in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in January 1966. Mikoyan A.I., Suslov M.A., Podgorny N.V., Brezhnev L.I., Mazurov K.T., Voronov G.I. in the guard of honor at Korolev's coffin.

Cosmonauts Nikolaev A.G., Titov G.S., Gagarin Yu.A., Bykovsky V.F., Tereshkova V.V. stand in the guard of honor.

Military personnel in the guard of honor.

General view of a part of the Column Hall and the coffin with Korolev's body.

Designers of rocket and space technology and cosmonauts in the guard of honor at the urn with Korolev's ashes.

View of the funeral urn, a funeral portrait of Korolev, pillows with his awards.

The funeral procession leaves the Column Hall, the portrait of Korolev is carried in front, the portrait of Korolev above the entrance to the House of Unions building, the urn with Korolev's ashes is carried out.

Panorama of part of the funeral rally on Red Square on the day of Korolev's funeral.

The funeral procession moves along the Kremlin wall, awards and a portrait of Korolev are carried, Brezhnev L.I. and Voroshilov K.E. carry the urn with his ashes.

Burial of the urn with Korolev's ashes in the Kremlin wall, installation of a plaque with the surname.

The portrait of Korolev at the Kremlin wall, his awards lie below, guards stand on either side.