Star City, Russia
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Star City (Russian: Звёздный Городо́к, Zvyozdny gorodok; lit. little town of stars) is a highly restricted military facility northeast of Moscow located at , where cosmonauts have been trained at the Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre (GCTC) since the 1960s.
In the Soviet era the town was a highly confidential and secured area, isolated from the rest of the world. Today, many Russian cosmonauts live in Star City with their families. The town has its own post office, shops, railway station and a museum of space travel.
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