title: The Cosmonaut Training Center in the 1960s: Problems of Logistics and Organization
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metadata.value: Batchenko, V. S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-06-30T10:44:10Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-06-30T10:44:10Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Batchenko V. S. ‘The Cosmonaut Training Center in the 1960s: Problems of Logistics and Organization’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 12, no. 1, 2022, pp. 145–157.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2022.108
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37028
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Based on declassified archival documents, this article examines key difficulties of the initial period of
  human preparation for space flight, carried out in the USSR at the Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC). In historiography,
  much has been said about the medical and psychological selection of the first group of cosmonauts, the
  physical exertion that the future conquerors of space experienced, but organizational and everyday difficulties
  remained behind the scenes. This work aims to identify the main problems faced by the CPC leadership and the
  first cosmonauts, and to place new emphasis on the problems of space exploration in the 1960s. The lack of a unified
  management of the space exploration process led to the fact that, on the one hand, the realities of the Cold
  War and the space race with the United States were pressing, and on the other hand, for more than ten years,
  cosmonauts-in-training had to put up with field training in centrifuges and for about twenty years in swimming
  pools, without the necessary equipment on the territory of the Center. The lack of balanced nutrition, the violation
  of rest and sleep, and failures in training due to the lack of instructors and equipment only added to this picture.
  The complexity of all the above-mentioned difficulties further illustrates the will of military pilots admitted to space
  flights to achieve the ultimate goal in any way. It is also important that the CPC leadership, being at the forefront of
  historical events, sought the status of a scientific institution for its organization, which allowed it to attract qualified
  personnel and develop the scientific potential of its employees. This problem, as well as the construction of the
  centrifuge, was solved only by the end of the 1960s.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was supported by the grant of the President of the Russian Federation for state support of young
  Russian scientists-candidates of sciences, project MK-1745.2021.2
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 12; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cosmonaut Training Center
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: centrifuge
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hydro laboratory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Institute of Aviation Medicine
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: flight training
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cosmonaut
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: space
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Cosmonaut Training Center in the 1960s: Problems of Logistics and Organization
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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