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Star City (Russian: Звёздный городок, romanized: Zvyozdny gorodok, lit. 'starry townlet') is an area in Zvyozdny gorodok , Moscow Oblast , Russia , which has since the 1960s been home to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC).
Zvyozdny gorodok (Russian: Звёздный городо́к), also known by its anglicized name Star City, is a closed urban locality (a work settlement) in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is home to the military research and space training facility known as Star City in English. Population: 6,332 (2010 Census). [4]
Zvyozdny gorodok (urban-type settlement), an urban-type settlement in Moscow Oblast, Russia Zvyozdny gorodok Urban Okrug, the municipal formation this urban-type settlement is incorporated as; Star City, Russia, a military research and space training facility in that urban-type settlement
The Star City Closed Administrative Territorial Unit is barely an hour's drive northeast of the Kremlin, but for decades the town never appeared on any maps. Star City's medical clinic stands in a ...
This is a list of cities and towns in Russia. According to the data of 2010 Russian Census , there are 1,117 cities and towns in Russia. After the Census, Innopolis , a town in the Republic of Tatarstan , was established in 2012 and granted town status in 2015.
The facility was originally known only as Military Unit 26266 or в/ч 26266, and was a secret training base for Soviet Cosmonaut candidates. The site was chosen for its proximity to Moscow and other infrastructure that would be essential for its function: Chkalovsky Airport, and the Yaroslavl railroad. [2]
The city of was a centre of industry, producing steel and other metals but since the February 2022 invasion has come under siege from Russian troops and is now occupied by Vladimir Putin’s forces.
The city of Zelenograd (a part of the federal city of Moscow) and the municipal cities/towns of the federal city of St. Petersburg are also excluded, as they are not enumerated in the 2021 census as stand-alone localities. Note that the sixteen largest cities have a total population of 35,509,177, or roughly 24.1% of the country's total population.