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Venera 5 and Venera 2 Probes, Moscow, 1969

Venera 5 and Venera 2 Probes, Moscow, 1969 (55.834334, 37.621677) CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

I believe the vessel on the left is a model of Venera 5, which launched in early 1969. To its right -- based on the solar panels -- is a Venera 2. Up to the right is a Proton probe.

Seen in the Cosmos Pavilion of the All-Russian Exhibition Centre.

Photo by my grandfather David C. Cook. Scanned from an unlabeled Kodachrome slide, datestamped June 1969. Slide W4 7 , in an unlabeled slide cartridge.

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