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« on: 08/30/2006 10:37 PM »
Yesterday I was at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC)!... :) It was very rainy day... :( Below is my photos, which with bad quality, because I am not good photographer... Also I have  soiled accidentally an objective of my camera... :(

Photo 1. Station "Tsiolkovskaya" at Moscow region near GCTC. Electric trains come here from Moscow
Photo 2. Main entrance of GCTC, which is protected by soldiers
Photo 3. Monument to Gagarin with always fresh flowers. Home, where Gagarin was lived, is behind this forest
Photo 4. House of cosmonauts, where spend celebratory meetings of cosmonauts after flight
Photo 5. Centrifuge, where cosmonauts get used to overloads
Photo 6. Building, where office of cosmonauts. There are also rooms for study of various subjects (Russian/English language, Soyuz/ISS systems etc.)
Photo 7. Building, where simulator of ISS Russian segment. At first this building was built for Buran simulators
Photo 8. Hydrolaboratory, where cosmonauts are trained for performing of spacewalks
Photo 9. Author of these photos, i.e. I am :)
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« Reply #1 on: 08/31/2006 05:03 PM »
Awesome pictures :)
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« Reply #2 on: 08/31/2006 05:08 PM »
Was it a non work day?  Very few cars in photos.  Nice to see photos of a rainy day in Moscow.  Most photos in books either are bright and sunny days or snow
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« Reply #3 on: 08/31/2006 06:18 PM »
It was a working day - Wednesday... There are a lot of cars only in an residential zone of GCTC... Practically all buildings in my photos are in a technical zone of GCTC... Access into a technical zone is more limited (including cars) than into a residential zone... The Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre is the closed military city and always looks deserted, if there are no celebratory actions or press conferences, or excursions...
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« Reply #4 on: 08/31/2006 06:50 PM »
or people moving between buildings?
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« Reply #5 on: 08/31/2006 08:24 PM »
Almost all buildings in a technical zone of GCTC are close from each other, therefore better to go on foot between them...
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« Reply #6 on: 09/01/2006 02:40 PM »
Anik, do you have pictures from inside the GCTC? Or is it not allowed to take pictures inside?
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« Reply #7 on: 09/01/2006 04:02 PM »
Did you make it down to Shep's bar? :)
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« Reply #8 on: 09/02/2006 03:51 AM »
Thanks for the photos! Just curious, how long does it take to travel from Moscow to Tsiolkovskaya? And what station do you depart from in Moscow?
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« Reply #9 on: 09/02/2006 12:00 PM »
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do you have pictures from inside the GCTC?

I have not many photos...

Photo 10. Inside the building, where centrifuge...
Photo 11. Inside Soyuz TMA simulator, where cosmonauts are training and passing exams...
Photo 12. Inside Mir Base Block simulator (bad quality, I am sorry!)...
Photo 13. Space toilet (ASU) inside Mir Base Block simulator... ;)

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is it not allowed to take pictures inside?

You can photograph, if you are at excursion or you are mass media, or you are working there, or you have good friends there...

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Suzy - 2/9/2006  7:38 AM

how long does it take to travel from Moscow to Tsiolkovskaya?

More than one hour...

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what station do you depart from in Moscow?

Yaroslavskiy railway station...

See image 14: 1 - Yaroslavskiy railway station, 2 - Tsiolkovskaya station with GCTC
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« Reply #10 on: 09/02/2006 04:12 PM »
We should Google Earth these places! Great pictures.
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« Reply #11 on: 09/03/2006 06:49 AM »

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We should Google Earth these places! Great pictures.

I installed GE about 2 months ago (then uninstalled it because I got some sort of browser hijacker through it - via Internet Explorer :( ) but I think I found Star City at the co-ordinates 55°55′N, 38°06′E. The SC site was blurry though - intentionally or not, I don't know. Shchelkovo Airfield west of it was quite clear, with clearly-visible aircraft parked on the tarmac.

...Is there a map available of Star City/GCTC or is it still "top secret"? :) I would like to see where all the buildings are located!
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« Reply #12 on: 09/03/2006 01:42 PM »
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Shchelkovo Airfield west of it was quite clear, with clearly-visible aircraft parked on the tarmac

This aerodrome is named Chkalovskiy, not Shchyolkovo... Chkalovskiy aerodrome belongs to Russian Air Force... Cosmonauts depart  to Baikonur cosmodrome from this aerodrome... Also they return to this aerodrome after landing in Kazakhstan...

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Is there a map available of Star City/GCTC or is it still "top secret"? :) I would like to see where all the buildings are located!

I am sure that there are no maps of GCTC, because, as I said earlier, GCTC is the closed military city... But below is my approximate map of GCTC, which I made today... :)
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« Reply #13 on: 09/03/2006 02:04 PM »
Google Earth doesn't like Russian placenames :(

You can get Moscow in good detail, but I'm not sure which way to find Star City.
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« Reply #14 on: 09/03/2006 10:24 PM »

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I am sure that there are no maps of GCTC, because, as I said earlier, GCTC is the closed military city... But below is my approximate map of GCTC, which I made today... :)


Thanks :) it's good enough!

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Chris Bergin - 3/9/2006  11:51 PM

Google Earth doesn't like Russian placenames :(

You can get Moscow in good detail, but I'm not sure which way to find Star City.

SC is east of Moscow - there is a radar map here (small image here - large one is 30 mb or so).
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