Y.V. Kondratyuk Museum of Cosmonautics

About museum

The museum is located in the regional historical monument “The House Where Y.V. Kondratyuk Worked,” built in 1924. Since 1993 a memorial museum named after Y.V. Kondratyuk has operated in this building; in 2025 it was renamed the Y.V. Kondratyuk Museum of Cosmonautics. From 1927 to 1930 one of the founders of Russian and world cosmonautics, Yuri Vasilyevich Kondratyuk (Alexander Ignatievich Shargey), worked here — a genius who made famous not only his own name but also the city of Novosibirsk. It was to this place that Kondratyuk brought the entire print run of his book “The Conquest of Interplanetary Spaces,” which placed him among the great explorers of space. In 2017 the building was declared unsafe, but by 2024 it had been fully restored and adapted for museum use. During the reconstruction the house retained its historic appearance and the original decorative elements of the façade. The building regained its original look, including the inscriptions “Joint-Stock Company 'Soyuzhleb'” and the construction period indication “August 20 — November 30, 1924.” The permanent exhibition consists of four halls. The “Space Novosibirsk” hall is dedicated to Novosibirsk residents and city enterprises connected to the space sector. The “Kondratyuk’s Fate” hall tells visitors about the life and work of Yuri Vasilyevich Kondratyuk. The “Bread” hall introduces the scientist’s terrestrial projects, and the fourth hall is devoted to the Moon. The exhibition includes items such as a rocket engine, a reentry/descent vehicle “Zenit-2,” photoelectron multipliers used in automatic interplanetary stations, a model of an aircraft tested in a wind tunnel, a fragment of the cargo bay from the “Buran” spacecraft that flew in space, a heating tank from the attic of the historic building, and the Novosibirsk Oblast flag that flew into space with Anna Kikina. Many of the museum’s exhibits are the work of Novosibirsk factory employees and scientists, used in the development of the country’s cosmonautics.