Organisers of the International Space Olympics

Natalia Grinko,
Head of Education
Department

Department of Education works taking into account demands of the times. Many schools of the city specialize in a certain profile. The school education system of Korolev is one of the best in Moscow Region.

There are 1,500 teachers in Korolev; 6 of them have a title "Honored Teacher of Russian Federation", 38 have government awards, 142 have the highest qualification "Excellent Teacher of National Education". There are 29 municipal schools, 4 grammar schools, Engineering Lyceum, a school of arts.

Students of Korolev schools are permanent prize-winners of different competitions (including international ones) in math, physics, computer science.

Alexander Martynov,
Head of Foreign
Relations Department

Foreign Relations Department of Korolev develops successfully international relations. It co-operates with 52 cities in 26 countries. The most important directions of co-operation are space programs, education, business, culture and health protection.

Since July 1997 Korolev is the only city representing Russia in the Sesame International Network which includes 18 medium-sized cities in 15 countries (the USA, Canada, Great Britain, France, Belgium, China, Spain and the others) covering 5 continents. The annual International Business Exchange is one of the most important activities of the Sesame Network, involving a large number of businessmen to gather and conduct business negotiations.

Energia-Buran

Energia Rocket Space Corporation occupies a leading position in the world in the sphere of manned spaceflight programmes. Several generations of Soyuz and Mir orbital stations as well as a highly efficient system of their transport support have been developed at the enterprise.

Mir station has become the first international orbital research centre. From 1996 astronauts from different countries have been working on board of the station. The full configuration of Mir station is used as a base of a classic scheme of manned orbital centres in the 21st century.

Now Energia Rocket Space Corporation takes part in implementing new international space programs and projects such as New International Space Station and Sea Launch.

Mission Control
Center

Men in space and men on the Earth may be thousands of miles away from each other. Still, the crews aboard orbital spacecraft and stations, unmanned probes in deep space and their watchers back on the Earth get coordinately on to fulfill the project programs.

The work done by thousands of people is coordinated by Mission Control Center situated near Moscow.

Built in 1973 Mission Control Center practically controls missions of "Mir" and "Salute" orbital stations, "Sojuz TM" spaceferries, "Progress" space trucks, space-flying science kits for orbital complexes, reusable space shuttles "Buran" and unmanned space probes "Venus", "Mars", "Zond", "Vega" and "Phobos". A scientific body too, the Center does its own research solving specific control tasks and looking for ways and means of solutions.

Main activity of Mission Control Center:
- to realize flight control over different space vehicles (manned orbital complexes, spacecrafts, automatic interplanetary stations, economic and scientific satellites) and to provide simultaneous control over several vehicles dealing with different space programs;
- to carry out scientific research, to create and to introduce the latest information processing technologies, to work out methods, algorithms and facilities in order to implement control, telemetry, ballistic and navigation tasks;
- to work out and to create automatic ground complex in order to control economic and scientific space vehicles. This complex consists of the control center, command and tracking stations (they are in Moscow Region, Krasnoyarsk, and the Far East) and telecommunication system employing retransmission satellites, ground broadband and voice communication channels;
- to work out and to create a united coordinate-timing assurance system including experimental research and development of application methods of space navigation system in national economy; design and creation of information analytic center of the coordinate-timing assurance system.