• Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel

    Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel

    Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel was an outstanding Soviet scientist and designer in the field of rocket and space technology, a founder of a new direction in the field of strategic missile weapons, a direction related to the creation of rockets on stable high–boiling fuel components that became the basis of strategic missile forces, the chief designer…

  • Aleksander Sergeevich Yakovlev

    Aleksander Sergeevich Yakovlev

    Aleksander Sergeevich Yakovlev was the Soviet designer of aviation equipment, chief designer of the Design Bureau No. 115 of the People’s Commissariat of Aviation Industry of the USSR, Moscow, General Designer of the Design Bureau No. 115 of the Ministry of Aviation Industry of the USSR, the twice Hero of Socialist Labor.

  • Alexey Dmitrievich Charomsky

    Alexey Dmitrievich Charomsky

    Alexey Dmitrievich Charomsky (Boronichev) was a Soviet designer of aviation and tank diesel engines, Major General of the Aviation Engineering Service (1944).

  • Nikolay Vasilyevich Tsitsin

    Nikolay Vasilyevich Tsitsin

    Nikolay Vasilyevich Tsitsin was the Academician of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences named after V.I. Lenin, director of the Main Botanical Garden of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

  • Bust of the founder of cosmonautics K.E. Tsiolkovsky

    Bust of the founder of cosmonautics K.E. Tsiolkovsky

    Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was a Russian scientist and inventor, the founder of cosmonautics and the theory of space exploration, an author of dozens of works on rocket dynamics, aeronautics and cosmonautics, the author of ideas about a space elevator and trains moving on an air cushion.

  • Aleksander Ivanovich Tselikov

    Aleksander Ivanovich Tselikov

    Aleksander Ivanovich Tselikov was a scientist in the field of metallurgical engineering, the director and General Director of the All–Union Research and Design Institute of Metallurgical Engineering, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, twice Hero of Socialist Labor.

  • Friedrich Arturovich Zander

    Friedrich Arturovich Zander

    Friedrich Arturovich Zander was a Soviet scientist and inventor in the field of the theory of interplanetary flights, jet engines and aircraft. In 1914 he graduated from Riga Polytechnic Institute.

  • Pyotr Nikolaevich Pospelov

    Pyotr Nikolaevich Pospelov

    Pyotr Nikolaevich Pospelov was the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, candidate for the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

  • Monument to the first dog in orbit Laika

    Monument to the first dog in orbit Laika

    The dog Laika became the first creature to enter the Earth’s orbit.

  • Aleksander Aleksandrovich Vishnevsky

    Aleksander Aleksandrovich Vishnevsky

    Vishnevsky was the Chief surgeon of the Ministry of Defence of the USSR, Colonel-General of the medical service.