Cosmonauts Alley () is a wide avenue in northern Moscow leading to the Russian
Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics
The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (), also known as the Memorial Museum of Astronautics or Memorial Museum of Space Exploration, is a museum in Moscow, Russia, dedicated to space exploration. It is located within the base of the Monument to the ...
and the
Monument to the Conquerors of Space
A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical ...
. The pedestrian-only avenue connects the museum and monument to the
VDNKh subway station.
''Moon Moscow and St. Petersburg''
J. Chater & N. Toohey, ed.; Public Affairs, 2009
p.127
Monuments
*Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Gagarin's first name is sometimes transliterated as ''Yuriy'', ''Youri'', or ''Yury''. (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful Human spaceflight, crewed sp ...
*Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born 6 March 1937) is a Russian engineer, member of the State Duma, and former Soviet cosmonaut. She was the first Women in space, woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. S ...
*Pavel Belyayev
Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev (; 26 June 1925 – 10 January 1970) was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the historic 1965 Voskhod 2 space mission which saw the first space walk. He had been a fighter pilot with extensive experience in piloting diff ...
*Alexei Leonov
Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov. (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut and aviator, Soviet Air Forces, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first person to conduct a Extravehic ...
*Vladimir Komarov
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (, ; 16 March 1927 – 24 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. He became the f ...
*Valentin Glushko
Valentin Petrovich Glushko (; ; born 2 September 1908 – 10 January 1989) was a Soviet engineer who was program manager of the Soviet space program from 1974 until 1989.
Glushko served as a main designer of rocket engines in the Soviet progra ...
*Mstislav Keldysh
Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (; – 24 June 1978) was a Soviet mathematician who worked as an engineer in the Soviet space program.
He was the academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1946), President of the Academy of Sc ...
*Sergey Korolyov
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (14 January 1966) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He invented the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1, and w ...
*Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (; rus, Константин Эдуардович Циолковский, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin ɪdʊˈardəvʲɪtɕ tsɨɐlˈkofskʲɪj, a=Ru-Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.oga; – 19 September 1935) was a Russi ...
* Valentin Lebedev
*Svetlana Savitskaya
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (; born 8 August 1948) is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly t ...
* Alexander Alexandrov
* Vladimir Solovyov
Gallery
File:Cosmonauts Alley.jpg, Cosmonauts Alley on Cosmonautics Day (2002)
File: Model of the Solar System at the Cosmonauts Alley.jpg, Model of the Solar System at the Cosmonauts Alley (Placed 2008)
References
{{Russian space program
Streets in Moscow
Outdoor sculptures in Moscow
Soviet and Russian space program locations
History of spaceflight
Monuments and memorials built in the Soviet Union
Tourist attractions in Moscow
Monuments and memorials to Yuri Gagarin
Alexei Leonov
Monuments and memorials to explorers
Monuments and memorials in Moscow
Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow