Svyosdny Gorodok

Closed urban-type settlement Svjosdny Gorodok / Star City Звёздный городок flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Moscow Urban district Svyosdny Gorodok mayor Nikolai Rybkin population 6332 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 3 Post Code 141160 License Plate 50, 90, 150, 190, 750 OKATO 46 574 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 53 '  N , 38 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 53 '0 "  N , 38 ° 6' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Moscow Oblast

Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center complex

Zvyozdny gorodok ( Russian Звёздный Городок , German Star City , in some publications Star City , English Star City ; official name until 2009 Закрытый военный городок № 1 , Sakryty wojenny gorodok 1 , German Closed military town no. 1 ) is a closed urban-type settlement in the Near the city of Shcholkovo northeast of Moscow in Moscow Oblast in Russia . The place has 6332 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

In zvyozdny gorodok is the training center of the Russian (and formerly Soviet ) cosmonaut , the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center ( Центр Подготовки Космонавтов имени Ю. А. Гагарина , transliteration : Central Podgotowki Kosmonawtow imeni Ju A. Gagarina. , Abbr. ЦПК / ZPK ). Since the 1960s, all cosmonauts have been here on their flights into space, e.g. B. to the space station ISS prepared. The cosmonaut training center has the world's largest centrifuge , which was built in 1980 and when used at 36 revolutions per minute, up to 12  g can act on the driver.

There is also a water basin (12 m deep, 20 m wide) on the training site, in which repairs can be practiced in weightlessness using a model . To simulate technical failures, a (dry) 1: 1 model of a part of the MIR was previously available , which now only serves as an exhibit.

During the time of the Soviet Union, the “star city” was strictly shielded from the outside world. Even today it is surrounded by a wall and bordered by a forest. The only way into the city center is past military controls. Admission is usually only possible with a pass, which only residents or registered guests have.

Many cosmonauts and their families live in Svyosdny Gorodok. Several lakes have been artificially created on the site. There is also a supermarket and a school that has a partnership with the Friedrich-August-Genth-Gesamtschule in Wächtersbach (Hesse).

Information and images have reached the public since the opening, particularly through space tourism .

Svyosdny Gorodok has a larger airport ( Tschkalowski military airfield ).

Web links

• Picture gallery at firstafricaninspace.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ Werner Buedeler: Advance into space. The fascinating history of space travel, Verlag Das Beste, Stuttgart 1982
3. ↑ Постановление Мособлдумы от 29.10.2009 N 7/94-П "О присвоении наименования" Звездный Городок "географическому объекту в Щелковском районе Московской области" Accessed 12 October 2011
4. ↑ Указ Президента РФ от 19.01.2009 № 68 "О преобразовании закрытого военного городка № 1 в закрытое административно-территориальное образование - посёлок Звёздный городок Московской области" ( Memento of 28 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ) Accessed 12 October 2011