Star City, Russia

55°52′50″N 38°06′38″E / 55.8806°N 38.1105°E / 55.8806; 38.1105

Star City, Russia is located in Russia
Star City, Russia
Location in Russia
Star City, Russia is located in Moscow Oblast
Star City, Russia
Location in Moscow Oblast

Star City (Russian: Звёздный городок, romanizedZvyozdny gorodok, lit.'starry townlet') is an area in Zvyozdny gorodok, Moscow Oblast, Russia, which has since the 1960s been home to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC). Officially, the area was known as "closed military townlet No. 1" and at various times had also been designated as Shchyolkovo-14 (Щёлково-14) and Zvyozdny (Звёздный).[1]

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Mir mockup in the training center pool
  1. ^ Московская областная Дума. Постановление №7/94-П от 29 октября 2009 г. «О присвоении наименования "Звёздный городок" географическому объекту в Щёлковском районе Московской области». (Moscow Oblast Duma. Resolution #7/94-P of October 29, 2009 On Granting the Name of "Zvyozdny gorodok" to the Geographical Object in Shchyolkovsky District of Moscow Oblast. ).