RGANTD Dump Volume 1

Many people asked me about the RGANTD Soviet Space Documents I have been working on. I decided to bundle up the source files, and make them available for anyone who is interested.

The charge is to cover the effort in organising, you are not getting any special rights here. I'm basically saving you the effort of fighting wobbly web servers and Russian security certificates etc yourself. All documents credited to RGANTD.

There are over 180 scans, (text and images), provided as JPG images, and I have also run each page through Yandex Image Translate, to help you. Translation is basic, but it's handy to have text on images translated in place, next to the diagrams. Resolution varies, but it is generally low to moderate.

I'm NOT including my enhanced / enlarged versions.

Sample illustration, unflown space station astrophysics module.

I'm arranging them according to the RGANTD structure in folders by:

• Fond (фонд) = literally 'fund' but more accurately "Collection"
• Opis' (опись) = literally 'inventory' which means a group listing of files within a Fond
• Delo (дело) = literally 'file' (as in a folder containing documents within an Opis
• List (лист) = 'leaf' or 'page'

The front page is included for every document, for example:

Sample title page, in the original Russian.

This structure will make it easy to refer to RGANTD and to slot in new pages as they are released.

Please note: These files are not really suitable for someone with a casual interest, they are much more suitable for people with a deep interest in the Soviet Space Program.

Thumbnails from one of the documents.

I hope these documents will encourage more work on making sense of the immense Soviet Space Archive!