Abstract
The Central Committee of the Communist Party agreed the establishment of a cosmonaut training centre on 11 January 1960. This was soon followed by a decision by the Head of the Air Force that the first commander of the training centre would be Colonel Yevgeniy Karpov and that he would have a staff of 250 specialists. The training centre would be a military unit, with the responsibility to house the staff and their families. To that end, the town of Zvyozdnyy Gorodok was constructed.
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(2005). Zvyozdnyy Gorodok — the town. In: Russia’s Cosmonauts. Springer Praxis Books. Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73975-5_11
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