Star City (Russian: Звёздный Городок, Zvyozdny Gorodok or Starry Town) is a highly restricted military facility northeast of Moscow, served by the airfield at Chkalovskiy Airport, where cosmonauts have been trained at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC) since the 1960s. 

In the Soviet era the town was a highly confidential, secure area, isolated from the rest of the world. Today, many Russian cosmonauts live in Star City with their families. The town has its own post office, shops, railway station and a museum of space travel. 

Go Russia offers you a unique opportunity to visit the place where the history of space travel began, where Yuri Gagarin began his progress towards the first space flight in human history. 

Standard Tour: *
14:00 Departure from Moscow.
15.30-16.00 Arrival, short walk around Star City.
16.00-18.00 Excursion to the training centre. You will see:

• A full-size model of the Mir space station, used for the cosmonauts’ training programme
• A hydro-laboratory capable of accommodating a 20-ton space station module, used for simulating EVA (spacewalk) weightlessness training. The pool is 12 metres deep, 23 metres in diameter and 5,000 cubic metres in volume
• Aircraft for simulating weightlessness, including the MIG-15 UTI, Tu-104 and the later IL-76 MDK, with an internal volume of 400 cubic meters
• Two centrifuges, large TsF-18 and smaller TsF-7, designed to simulate G-force during liftoff
• A planetarium developed in East Germany, capable of projecting as many as 9,000 stars

18.00 Departure for Moscow.
19.30 Arrival in Moscow.

* Please note the timings may vary depending on Star City permission, as an alternative you may be offered a morning visit to the centre.

Price: £120 per person for a group of 4 people (if your group is less then four people you will need to pay a minimum charge of £450 in total). Week-end and bank holiday supplement - £50 per group.
Included: private transport, services of an English-speaking guide, café lunch in Star City.
Tour dates: any

Please note that Star City is a working training centre, so your visit will have to be approved by the Russian authorities, after a compulsory security check. For this we will require some personal details, at least 2 weeks prior to your visit. Please download and complete the form and email it to us. 

For more information contact us on info@justgorussia.co.uk