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Spacecraft development within the Soviet Union was largely a Russian endeavor. Russia, the major entity within the Soviet Union, was the country around which the Soviet Union was formed in 1921, and it picked up the pieces after the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.
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Lund, T. (2018). Russian Manned Lunar Landing Endeavors. In: Early Exploration of the Moon. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02071-2_14
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