A famous Soviet-era artifact is being destroyed in Crimea
In Yevpatoria, the unique Soviet complex “Pluto” was under threat of destruction.
Today, the complex's antennas are outdated and it is not in use, but in the Soviet years, the radar of Venus and Mercury was determined here for the first time, and also for the first time in human history, a message was sent to extraterrestrial civilizations.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, today social activists propose to create a museum and a scientific center on the basis of the complex.
“We propose to create such a training, scientific and educational center. It would be possible to make not just a historical museum, but to create scientific laboratories and children’s centers there, so that children could be told what remote sensing of the Earth is, how the Earth is studied from space,” he said on Vesti. Tavrida" veteran of the space forces Sergei Gusev.
This idea is also supported by Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov.
“There are those antennas that have historically outlived their usefulness, but are the history and heritage of our people. Therefore, this idea is to build a space park near Yevpatoria, where both children and adults could come to Crimea and, in addition to relaxing, go to learn the history of space by touching and seeing real spacecraft,” the cosmonaut noted.
However, this idea is unlikely to be realized, since a complex consisting of eight antennas, each 16 meters in diameter, will not fit on the territory of any museum, says Nikolai Gorbunov, director of the Interactive Museum of Knowledge and Discoveries.
“It’s probably a dream to get such an exhibit and, indeed, this is a historical building. This is a huge complex that is connected to space. I also understand that it is probably even impossible to do this in practice. Because, firstly, this is a huge installation, it’s hard for me to imagine a museum that could geographically accommodate these antennas,” Gorbunov said.
The Pluto complex was built in 1960 under the supervision of the outstanding Soviet scientist Sergei Korolev. It supported all deep space exploration programs; radio communications using the complex's antennas made it possible to send a signal over several hundred million kilometers.
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