STAR CITY, RUSSIA — Designed by Soviet secret-keepers in the depths of the Cold War, Star City lies deep in the pine and birch forests on Moscow’s edge, and even now you can’t find it on ...

The Star City Closed Administrative Territorial Unit is barely an hour’s drive northeast of the Kremlin, but for decades the town never appeared on any maps. Only after the Soviet Union fell ...

STAR CITY, Russia (Reuters) - The Star City Closed Administrative Territorial Unit is barely an hour's drive northeast of the Kremlin, but for decades the town never appeared on any maps. Only ...

Star City, located just east of Moscow, became the home of the cosmonauts. Advertisement During the 1960s the Soviet Union planned extensively for a lunar landing and trained over 60 cosmonauts.

A trip to Star City, the formerly closed-off cosmonaut training centre on the outskirts of Moscow, is a journey through the past, present and future of space exploration.

The location symbolises the sensitivity. For years, Star City didn't appear on any maps - kept hidden away from the West's prying eyes during the Cold War. Even today, gaining entry to Russia's ...

Star City is not just the home of Russia’s space story, it is at the heart of Planet Earth’s. • Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, joins the call for Star City to be awarded ...

A trip to Star City, the formerly closed-off cosmonaut training centre on the outskirts of Moscow, is a journey through the past, present and future of space exploration.

As Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age opens at the Science Museum in London, Caroline Shearing visits Star City, where Yuri Gagarin trained to be a cosmonaut, and calls for Unesco to step in to ...