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The museum is included into the structure of Samara University. Three main parts of the museum show: Aviation evolution stages in Russia; Main steps in space exploration; university foundation and development; academician S.P. Korolev memorial section and a permanent exhibition "Aerospace Samara".
In an exposition you can see original products and units, unique models and photos of aviation and aerospace apparatus such as: Space satellite "Photon" landing module and recovery capsule of photographic observation "Jantar-2K" satellite, which were produced in Samara; cosmonaut Romanenko's space food samples; special equipment to be used on board the space stations "Mir" and ISS; "Pion" minisatellite designed in SSAU; Korolev's personal documents and paraphemalia, lifetime editions of Tsiolkovsky's books, rare editions, unique photos and autographs of outstanding scientists, designers and cosmonauts V. Glushko, D. Kozlov, N. Kuznetsov, U. Gagarin, G. Titov and others.
Museum of Aviation and Аstronautics is involved in varied educational and cultural activities such as lectures and classes, tutorials, general and theme excursions. It also organizes conferences, exhibitions, film shows, presentations, concerts, theme shows, etc.
Just in case you mistakenly heard that it was all ice and snow in Russia, take a peek at the Big Bikini Exposition. This is right on the river Moskva in Moscow!Moscow has been the capital of Russia for almost its entire history. The exception is during the period of the Russian Empire, which lasted from 1721 until the Russian Revolution 1917. For these two centuries the capital was St. Petersburg. The Russian Empire was the second largest contiguous Empire in world memory; only the Mongol Empire had been greater.Check out what's happening north of Mongolia these days, in ChitaAlthough you may not have heard of Sochi, on the Black Sea, they're building up quickly and hope to host the 2014 Olympics.Other periods of Russian history include the Tsardom of Russia, from Ivan IV to Peter the Great, and the Grand Duchy (14th-16th centuries).The earliest period of Russian history was ruled by the Novgorod Republic and Kievan Rus, which was the first Russian state dating back to 800AD in Kiev.Modern Russia remains one of the world's superpowers. They launched the earth's second satellite, called Sputnik 1, and were the first country to put a human being into orbit around earth. (The first one is called the Moon.)After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia became a federal republic of 83 states.Text by Steve Smith.
