Exhibition of the House‑Museum of Academician S. P. Korolev

About exhibition

In one of the Ostankino side streets, not far from the "Conquerors of Space" monument, stands a two‑storey mansion surrounded by a garden. The house, built in 1959 to a design by architect R. I. Semerdzhiev, was presented to S. P. Korolev by the Soviet government in recognition of the creation and successful launch on October 4, 1957 of the world's first artificial Earth satellite. The house has been preserved exactly as it was during S. P. Korolev's lifetime. In the museum, unique for the authenticity of its exhibits, the exhibition and the closed collections hold about 19,000 items. These include Korolev's personal belongings, documents, letters, photographs, furniture, household items, works of fine art, and scientific-technical and art libraries. Everything the museum holds — from the neat notes of a young student at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in the 1920s to the notebook describing the affairs and concerns of the chief designer in the last month of his life — was transferred to state custody by N. I. Koroleva. The architecture and interior decoration of S. P. Korolev's house are a fragment of the history and culture of everyday life in mid-20th-century Russia.