Exhibition of the Yuri V. Kondratyuk Museum of Cosmonautics

About exhibition

The exhibition presents the participation of Novosibirsk residents in the development of the national space program. Central to it is the story of the personality and creative legacy of one of the founders of theoretical astronautics, Yuri Vasilyevich Kondratyuk (A. V. Shargey), who worked in Novosibirsk from 1927 to 1931. The exhibition consists of four halls: the "Cosmic Novosibirsk" hall is dedicated to Novosibirsk residents and thirty Novosibirsk enterprises connected with the space industry. The "Fate of Y.V. Kondratyuk" hall tells the dramatic biography of the scientist against the backdrop of the events of his time and his contemporaries. The "Bread" hall is devoted to the scientist's terrestrial projects — the "Mastodont" grain storage complex and the Crimean wind power station — as well as the history of the landmark building "Kondratyuk House." The "Moon" hall relates the scientist's principal dream. Here visitors can learn about the history of lunar exploration, the stages of a space flight, and asteroids named after Novosibirsk residents. Among the exhibits are the "Zenit" descent capsule of the "Vostok" class, a fragment of the cargo compartment of the orbital complex "Buran", space suits and the couch-berth of cosmonaut A. Zaletin, and a reprint of Y.V. Kondratyuk's book "The Conquest of Interplanetary Space" that has flown to the ISS.