Soyuz is a transliteration of the Cyrillic text Союз (

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

and Ukrainian, 'Union'). It can refer to any union, such as a trade union (''profsoyuz'') or the

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by are ...

(Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, ''Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik''). As terminological shorthand "soyuz" by itself was often used interchangeably with each of the slightly longer terms Сове́тский Сою́з (''Sovetskiy Soyuz'', 'Soviet Union'). It was also a shorthand for the citizenry as a whole. Soyuz is also the designated name of various projects the country commissioned during the

Space Race The Space Race (, ) was a 20th-century competition between the Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between t ...

Space program uses

Soyuz programme The Soyuz programme ( , ; , meaning "Union") is a human spaceflight programme initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. The Soyuz spacecraft was originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon ...

, a human spaceflight program initiated by the Soviet Union, continued by the

Russian Federation Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

Soyuz (spacecraft) Soyuz () is a series of spacecraft which has been in service since the 1960s, having made more than 140 flights. It was designed for the Soviet space program by the Korolev Design Bureau (now Energia (corporation), Energia). The Soyuz succeeded ...

, used in that program *

Soyuz (rocket) The Soyuz (, meaning "union", GRAU index 11A511) was a Soviet expendable carrier rocket designed in the 1960s by OKB-1 and manufactured by State Aviation Plant No. 1 in Kuybyshev, Soviet Union. It was commissioned to launch Soyuz spacecraft ...

, initially used to launch that spacecraft *

Soyuz (rocket family) Soyuz (, GRAU index: 11A511) is a family of Soviet and later Russian expendable Medium-lift launch vehicle, medium-lift launch vehicles initially developed by the OKB-1 design bureau and manufactured by the Progress Rocket Space Centre factory ...

, derivatives of that rocket design *

Soyuz Launch Complex Ensemble de Lancement Soyouz (ELS, ) is a launch complex at the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. Currently inactive, the complex was first used in October 2011 in support of the Soyuz-ST rocket and the Soyuz at the Guiana Space Centre progra ...

in Kourou, French Guiana

Other Soviet/Russian/Ukrainian uses

* SS ''Albert Ballin'', a 1922 German-built ship recovered and renamed ''Soyuz'' by the USSR *

Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleship The ''Sovetsky Soyuz''-class battleships (Project 23, , ), also known as "Stalin's Republics", were a class of battleships begun by the Soviet Union in the late 1930s but never brought into service. They were designed in response to the s being b ...

, an aborted ship construction program, 1938–1941 * '' Sovetsky Soyuz'', a propaganda magazine published by the Soviet Union, beginning in 1956 *

Soyuz Station Soyuz Station is a Russia, Russian (formerly Soviet Union, Soviet) Antarctic research station, located on the shores of Beaver Lake (Antarctica), Beaver Lake, 260 km off Prydz Bay on the Lars Christensen Coast of the Mac Robertson Land in East Anta ...

, a base established in 1982 by members of the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions in Mac. Robertson Land * , a Moscow-based media company, founded in 1988 *

Soyuz (faction) Soyuz (Russian: Союз, translated as 'Union') was a faction in the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. The faction was critical of Perestroika and liberal reforms; it was opposed to de-centralization of the Soviet Union. The group was f ...

in the Congress of Soviets, 1990–1991 *

Soyuz (political party) The Party "Soyuz" (, Russian: Партия "Союз") is a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine that was mostly based in Crimea until 2014. It was registered in June 1997 under a registration number 867. History The party was founded in 1997 ...

, a political party in Ukraine, established in 1997

Uses in fiction

* Soyuz, a team of Russian superheroes in DC Comics * Soyuz, a character in ''Dr. Stone'', a Japanese manga series

Space program uses

Other Soviet/Russian/Ukrainian uses

Uses in fiction

See also