Museum and Exhibition Center ”Samara Kosmicheskaya” description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Samara (Topic)

Museum and Exhibition Center "Samara Kosmicheskaya" description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Samara. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The youngest and most original landmark of Samara is the legendary Soyuz carrier rocket, being the only genuine monument in Europe of an assembled rocket. The author of the project, which combined the museum building and the monument, is the architect V. Zhukov. The idea of a "space" complex is considered the most successful in Samara in recent years.

The Museum and Exhibition Center "Samara Kosmicheskaya" was opened on April 12, 2007 on Lenin Avenue, next to the "Rossiyskaya" metro station, in honor of the anniversary of Gagarin's flight into space and the 45th anniversary of Samara's space engineering. The height of the launch vehicle together with the building is about 68 meters, and its weight is 20 tons. In the pedestal of the monument rocket there is a museum of cosmonautics with exhibits of rocket engines, descent capsules and many other equipment related to space exploration and rocketry. In the exhibition hall, visitors, sitting in an armchair of the original design, can watch films (of their choice) on the screen - the ship's porthole, plunging into the magical atmosphere of the "Expectations of Space" project.

In the spring of 2011. in front of the museum, a sculpture of an astronaut in a bright orange spacesuit was installed to the height of a man. The opening of the composition was timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first flight into space, and for the "cartoonish" appearance, the Samara people dubbed the sculpture - a cosmopups. Now the site in front of the museum complex is a favorite place for photo sessions for guests and residents of the city.

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