Today Russia celebrates the official "Cosmonautics Day" - space topic is all over screens today and even president Putin went to see new Russian movie about a space exploration. However, there is a page of history of USSR and now Russia which is pretty much sad and shows that the progress of space exploration in Russia doesn't advance now.
Baikonur is a huge space launching site. It was built and used by USSR but now is left in Kazakhstan. On it's territory there is a huge hangar where two artefacts of Soviet space legacy remains. They stay here for over twenty years behind the close doors and are covered with thick layer of dust. Russian blogger Ralph went there and now we have the pictures here, let's see:
Here is this huge hangar. Top of Soviet space progress. It's over 130 meter tall. The huge structures on its sides are the gates. A full-rise rocket with a space shuttle mounted on it could slide thru this doors. They are very huge.
The walls are mega-thick. They built to withhold an explosion wave if a rocket explodes nearby during the launch so that no equipment inside would be damaged.
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Those are huge cranes inside - they could lift 400 tons.
Inside there are two Soviet spaceships.
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