Abstract
Soon after the government decision of 11 January 1960 to create a centre for training cosmonauts, a commission that included the head of cosmonaut training, General Nikolay Kamanin, began searching for a suitable site for the new centre, which was planned to become not just the central location for the training of Soviet cosmonauts, but also the place they would live.
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(2005). The Cosmonaut Training Centre: birth and growth. In: Russia’s Cosmonauts. Springer Praxis Books. Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73975-5_1
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