Many of us want to get acquainted with the history of other cities, their memorable places. But most simply do not have time for this. After all, the road, excursions and rest can drag on for a long time. But why go far? You can carve out a day and go to the nearest city in your area.
This article is for Muscovites. Very close to the capital is the beautiful city of Korolev, the sights of which we will consider. Various sightseeing tours and sightseeing tours are quite popular here. So, let's find out what this city is famous for, and consider the sights of the city of Korolev, Moscow Region.
The first thing S. Korolev is associated with is rockets, the first space flight, Gagarin. But there is also a city in the Moscow region, which bears the name of a great scientist and designer.
History
In the twelfth century, several settlements of Slavic tribes scattered in the coast of the Klyazma River were located on the territory of the settlement. It is believed that an ancient trade route connecting the principality of Moscow and Vladimir-Suzdal lay in the area. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, one of the first industrial enterprises of Russia was launched in this place - a manufactory producing linen and cloth. In 1918, the Cannon Plant from Petrograd was moved to the territory of the suburban village of Podlipki.
Podlipki appeared as a holiday village at the end of the century before last, after which the name changed three more times: in the twenty-eighth year of the last century - the village of Kalininsky, in the thirty-eighth year - the city of Kaliningrad. And in 1996 in honor of the general designer of space rocket systems S.P. Korolev, he was renamed the city of Korolev. Its sights are closely connected with the history of the name.
The structure of Kaliningrad included two more settlements - Bolshevo and Kostino. They have an entertaining story that has become an integral part of the Kaliningrad-Korolev annals. For more than three hundred years, the Bolshevsk land had the glory of the ancient center of weaving. Sailing from Bolshevo back in the time of Peter the Great was completed with the nascent Russian fleet.
Kostino became known in the country and beyond its borders by the presence of a labor commune of street children, which was organized in the twenty-fourth year of the twentieth century at the suggestion of the Iron Felix.
Now let's move on to the main thing. We begin to describe the sights of the Queen.
Flight control center
The flight control center was established in October 1960 in this town as a computer center that allows you to process and analyze information from the first space devices.
At present, the Center is still functioning and is managing flights of a department of the Russian part of the International Space Station, both manned vehicles and those operating in automatic mode.
MCC staff will help organize visits to the center for both Russian and foreign citizens. In the process of traveling through this sights of Korolev, you will visit the hall from which for the last fifteen years they managed the Mir orbital station crowned with laurels. You will also be able to see the Main Flight Control Hall of the International Space Station, and most importantly - rarely is anyone given the opportunity to watch the work on managing the orbital complex in real time.
You will hear many different stories about the arrangement and activities of the Center, you can watch fascinating videos about the life of astronauts in orbit, but nothing beats the ability to watch the control of the orbital station in real time.
Space technology museum
The name of this landmark Queen of the Moscow region speaks for itself. Here are collected exhibits characterizing the history of the creation of our rocket and space technology: from primary Soviet long-range ballistic missiles to the Energia launch vehicle and the Sea Launch strategic space-rocket complex, from early artificially created Earth satellites to space-borne transport pilots ships of various modifications.
The museum is represented by a showroom, a hall of Labor Glory and the Memorial Room of S.P. Korolev.
Exhibits
In the showroom of this attraction of the Korolev there’s nothing: rockets, satellites, and the whole history of Russian and Soviet rocket and space technology unfolds before one’s eyes.
The Hall of Labor Glory is the story in the faces of those people who performed it, but remained behind the scenes, the story of ordinary hard workers, without which the ideas of great scientists, designers would be very difficult to put into practice. Everything is present here: photographic images, documentary sources, awards, souvenirs, etc.
In the memorial room of S.P. Korolev, the life of a simple person is displayed, everything that a simple layman needed in modern conditions to create.
In addition, a visit to any attraction of the Queen is not just an opportunity to touch the story, it is a chance to watch it. To see and touch the apparatus on which Yuri Gagarin returned home is something beyond words. And full-scale mock-ups of the original Soyuz-Apollo interethnic orbital complex and the station located in orbit, the Salute, by their similarity, make it possible to touch the history of mankind.
Royal History Museum
Be sure to visit the Royal History Museum. In it you will find mock-ups of flying equipment, cars from the Great Patriotic War, prototypes of military missiles, artillery pieces, various photographs and documents.
The museum also tells about the contribution of the inhabitants of the city of Korolev to the development of defense and science. Exhibits talk about the life of summer residents at the beginning of the last century, the Civil and World War II. The space and rocket development time of the city is represented by models of various military missiles, spacecraft and ships.
Memorial House-Museum of S. N. Durilin
The Historical House-Museum of S. N. Durilin is a museum of all-Russian educational significance. Sergey Nikolaevich Durylin - writer, theater and literary “critic” (as he called himself) of the first half of the last century.
His house in Bolshev was built at the beginning of the twentieth century, based on the surviving remains of the destroyed Holy Monastery. Durylin collected an amazing collection of icons of the 17th - early 20th centuries, as well as the works of K. Malevich, R. R. Falk, M. A. Voloshin, V. D. Polenov, K. F. Bagaevsky, L. O. Pasternak and others. In his House-Museum, photographs and personal belongings of B. L. Pasternak, S. T. Richter, N. D. Teleshev, as well as ministers of the Maly, Bolshoi and Art theaters have been preserved. So here you are not just culturally enriched, but you will discover many interesting facts.
Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva
Well, the most magnificent from a cultural point of view is an unusual museum of its kind, dedicated to the work of the talented Russian poetess Marina Tsvetaeva. This museum is known not only in Russia, but also far beyond its borders.
It was located in the village of Bolshevo, where the poetess lived in the first days after emigration. The most important fragments of the museum's collection are memorial items belonging to the Tsvetaeva-Efron family. In addition, among the exhibits of the house-museum you will see paintings by Yu. Zhudro, V. Kleroi, G. Zaitsev, autographs of the famous compatriots Tsvetaeva - N. Mandelstam, B. L. Pasternak, L. Libedinskaya, M. I. Belkina and others, as well as things that once belonged to A. S. Efron and S. Ya. Efron, M. A. Voloshin, B. L. Pasternak.
The Marina Tsvetaeva Museum is not only exhibits associated with a priceless past, but also a meeting place for people of creative intelligentsia, the organization of interesting exhibitions and traditional Tsvetaev readings.
Museums are the most significant sights of the city of the Queen of the Moscow region.
