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3 unusual facts about Zarya


Energia

A FGB ("Functional Cargo Block") engine section originally built as a cancelled Mir module was incorporated into the upper stage used to inject the payload into orbit, similarly to modern geostationary satellites providing apogee impulse themselves, since the planned "Buran-T" upper stage had not yet progressed beyond the planning stage.

Nikolay Danilevsky

Danilevsky first published "Russia and Europe: a look at the cultural and political relations of the Slavic world to the Romano-German world" in the journal Zarya in 1869.

Zarya

A FGB cargo block was incorporated as an upper stage engine into the Polyus spacecraft, flown (unsuccessfully) on the first Energia launch.


Belkovsky Island

The strait between Belkovsky Island and neighboring Kotelny Island is known as the Zarya Strait, after Eduard Toll's Zarya (polar ship).

Kolomeytseva Islands

In 1900, the islands of the Nordenskiƶld Archipelago were explored by Russian geologist Baron Eduard Von Toll during the Polar Expedition on behalf of the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences aboard ship Zarya.

Nikolai Kolomeitsev

Kolomeitsev supervised the fitting out of the Zarya in Larvik, Norway.

Proton-K

Thirty were launched in this configuration, with payloads including all of the Soviet Union's Salyut space stations, all Mir modules with the exception of the Docking Module, which was launched on the US Space Shuttle, and the Zarya and Zvezda modules of the International Space Station.

Rastorguyev Island

Toll sent Rastorguyev along with hitherto captain of ship Zarya, N. N. Kolomeitsev on a long sledge trip with the mission of organizing coal depots for the Zarya on Kotelny Island and Dikson, as well as to bring the mail of the expedition to Dudinka.

Stepan Rastorguyev

Their mission was to organize coal depots for the Zarya on Kotelny Island and Dikson, as well as to bring the mail of the expedition to Dudinka.

Tiksi

In August 1901, Russian Arctic ship Zarya headed across the Laptev Sea, searching for the legendary Sannikov Land (Zemlya Sannikova) but was soon blocked by floating pack ice in the New Siberian Islands.


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