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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-149Last update of repository: 6 February 2020Muzei Rossiiskogo gosudarstvennogo nauchno-issledovatel'skogo ispytatel'nogo Tsentra podgotovki kosmonavtov im. Iu.A. Gagarina (Zvezdnyi gorodok, Moscow Oblast) (Muzei TsPK)History The museum was founded in 1967 in Zvezdnyi gorodok (Star City) in Moscow Oblast (about 50 km. from Moscow), on the initiative of the world’s first cosmonaut Iu.A. Gagarin. The Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center itself was renamed in 1995 the Iu.A. Gagarin Russian State Scientific Research and Testing Center for Training Cosmonauts under the Ministry of Defense and the Russian Space Agency. |