[FPSPACE] help identifying model in Soviet era picture

Chris Jones clj at panix.com
Fri Jul 27 20:29:30 EDT 2007


http://englishrussia.com/images/more_pictures_ussr_70/76.jpg is a picture from
inside the article http://englishrussia.com/?p=1110 (feel free to look at the
whole article; there are some interesting technical pictures in among the
other pictures, though the one I've cited is the only space-specific one I
saw).  I recognize most of the models and depictions on the wall; I can pick
out a Soyuz spacecraft on its launcher, a Progress-or-Voskhod-or-Molniya (my
differentiation skills aren't able to resolve the difference), a Vostok, what
I think are Tsiklon and a Kosmos launcher and a V-2A sounding rocket.

There's also a very small rocket I can't recognize, a Lunakhod model, and a
later Venera (I think).  I have some trouble with the pictures on the wall/
wallpaper.  I pick out what must be Salyut 1, albeit with a camera port(?) I
believe is either misplaced or non-existent on the flight model and a
depiction of Luna 1 and/or 2.  I can't recognize the model partly visible
above and between the Soyuz and the P-or-V-or-M, and I am baffled by the large
model held in the hands of what appears to be the instructor or oldest child.
It doesn't resemble anything I recognize as having flown, so I'm guessing
it's a conceptual model or something planned at one time (a nuclear rocket or
manned interplanetary ship come to mind).  Anyone recognize the site and/or
the unidentified objects I've mentioned?



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