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Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
The Yuri Gagarin Research Testing Center for Cosmonaut Training (FSBI NII TsPK named after Yuri Gagarin) is the main Soviet and Russian cosmonaut training institution.Created on January 11, 1960 in the Star City in the Moscow region as the First Cosmonaut Corps of the USSR. In the late 1960s, the center was named after Yuri Gagarin in memory of the planet's first cosmonaut.
In 1995, by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of May 15, 1995 No. 478, on the basis of the Yu.A. Gagarin Research Testing Center for Cosmonaut Training and the 70th OITAPON (a separate special-purpose test and training aviation regiment based at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow) was created Russian State Scientific Research Testing Center for Cosmonaut Training named after Yu. A. Gagarin (RGNII CTC named after Yu. A. Gagarin).
From the moment of its creation and until 1991, the Center was under the jurisdiction of the USSR Ministry of Defense, from 1992 to 2008 - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.The TSPK center includes various simulators, two centrifuges - TsF-7 and TsF-18, a hydrolaboratory, and an Il-76 laboratory aircraft . The centrifuges are designed for overload training, the TsF-18 centrifuge is located in a cylindrical building on the territory of the Center. In another cylindrical building there is a three-storey hydro laboratory, containing a water tank with a diameter of 23 meters and a depth of 12 meters. The hydro laboratory is practicing actions in conditions of zero gravity of open space on a full-size model of the orbital station (once Salyut-7, later Mir, now ISS). The airplane laboratory is designed for short-term creation of weightlessness.Center leadersColonel of the Medical Service Evgeny Anatolyevich Karpov (from February 24, 1960, the first head of the Cosmonaut Training Center, until 1963)Aviation Colonel General Mikhail Petrovich Odintsov (1963)Major General of Aviation Nikolai Fedorovich Kuznetsov (1963-1972)Lieutenant General of Aviation, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR Georgy Timofeevich Beregovoy (1972-1987) Lieutenant General of Aviation, Pilot- Cosmonaut of the USSR Vladimir Alexandrovich Shatalov (1987-1991)Hero of the Soviet Union medal.png Colonel General, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk (1991-2003)Lieutenant General, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation Vasily Vasilyevich Tsibliev (2003-2009)Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR Sergey Konstantinovich Krikalev (March 30, 2009 - March 27, 2014);Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation Yuri Valentinovich Lonchakov (April 2014 - October 2017);Honored Test Pilot of the Russian Federation Pavel Nikolaevich Vlasov (since November 2017)