The launch vehicles of the Soviet Union: the R-7 Semyorka that launched Sputnik and Gagarin, the Proton, the N1 Moon rocket and the heavy Energia. A rocket belongs here when its cited article calls it a Soviet launch vehicle or missile. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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R-7 Semyorka (Wikipedia)
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The R-7 Semyorka (Russian: Р-7 Семёрка, lit. 'number seven', GRAU index: 8K71) was a Soviet missile developed during the Cold War, and the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile.
Proton-K (Wikipedia)
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Proton-K (Протон-К, GRAU: 8K82K, Sheldon: D-1, D-1-e, D-1-h, DoD: SL-12, SL-13), was a Russian, previously Soviet, carrier rocket derived from the earlier Proton.
Wikipedia: N1 (rocket)
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The N1 (from Ракета-носитель Raketa-nositel', "Carrier Rocket"; Cyrillic: Н1, GRAU index: 11A52, Sheldon: G-1-e, DoD: SL-15) was a super heavy-lift launch vehicle of the Soviet space program intended for crewed travel to the Moon and beyond.
Wikipedia: RSC Energia
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Founded in 1946 as OKB-1 under Sergei Korolev, the group was responsible for pioneering achievements in the Soviet and Russian space programs, including the launch of the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 and the first human spaceflight, Vostok 1.
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