Monument to the Russian and Soviet rocket scientist Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) in Moscow, Russia
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (17 September 1857 in Izhevskoye, Russian Empire - 19 September 1935 in Kaluga, Soviet Union) was a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory, of Polish, Russian, and Tatar descent. Along with his followers, the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. His works later inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers such as Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko and contributed to the success of the Soviet space program. Tsiolkovsky spent most of his life in a log house on the outskirts of Kaluga, about 200 km (120 mi) southwest of Moscow. A recluse by nature, he appeared strange and bizarre to his fellow townsfolk
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Location: Monument to the Conquerors of Space, Prospekt Mira 111, 129164 Moscow, Russia, Eastern Europe
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