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The idea of gigantism tightly seized the minds of the Soviet designers of the prewar time. The pursuit of grandiose size was evident in everything from architecture to military industry. In the early 1930s became the "projects", most of them remained unclaimed. Multi-purpose aircraft K-7, nicknamed the flying fortress, was an ambitious but unrealized project of the Soviet aviation industry.

The name Koli Myagotina today is not too well known. Nevertheless, it long time was considered a "pioneer-hero No. 2", it is like Pavlik Morozov was a symbol of the struggle against the kulaks. In his homeland, in the Kurgan region, his name was called, the streets and Houses of culture, he established a monument in his native village, his house turned into a Museum.

The era of manned spaceflight began on 12 April 1961 flight into space of Yuri Gagarin. His name will forever remain in the memory of mankind. Today on the first manned flight into space is known almost everything, but never publicized as the material was rewarded by the Soviet government for his feat of the first cosmonaut.

The territory, which stretches along the right tributary of the river Vilyui, the Yakuts call the "valley of Death". According to legend, in this place are huge cauldrons, half buried in the ground. Under the original "hemispheres" once spent the night hunters, or lost travelers. However, after many of them fell ill or died, the elders forbade all walking in the "valley".

Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most memorable leader of the Soviet country. His name is most often associated with two subject – corn on the cob and shoes.