Early Soviet Moon spacecraft

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Hello there.
I just found some new information about the Soviet lunar program. It turns out that there was an intermediate link between "vostok/voskhod" and "soyuz" called "sever" (translated as north), had the indices 5k and 3k. See the first 5 photos. They show: 1 test ship "sever", a kind of Soviet gemini 2. sever 3 upper stage 4 docking of upper stages; then the north docked with the" train " of upper stages. 5 sever is ready to fly around the moon. The flight was planned to be manned. Unfortunately, the program was quickly closed, immediately switching to Soyuz.
Now just about that. The first project of "soyuz" was called soyuz-a. 6 photo - its model (there should still be solar panels, see below). Then it docked with the upper stage soyz-b and went to the moon (7 and 8 photos). Pay attention to the similarity of Shenzhou with this project. Well, as a bonus, I attach the final project of a manned flyby of the moon, 3 variations of the r-56 Yangel rocket and Afanasyev's book "non-light ships", from where I took most of the information. Enjoy

 

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Here are 6 7 and 8 photos

 

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Afanasiev’s book, if u need help with the translation, ask me or use google translator.

 

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all illustrations/models by Aleksandr Shlyadinskyj.

 

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Bonus 1

 

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Afanasiev’s book, if u need help with the translation, ask me or use google translator.

Here's an English PDF translation with illustrations:

 

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Afanasiev’s book, if u need help with the translation, ask me or use google translator.

Here's an English PDF translation with illustrations:

Wow, nice

 

[Space Baron]

Hello there.
I just found some new information about the Soviet lunar program. It turns out that there was an intermediate link between "vostok/voskhod" and "soyuz" called "sever" (translated as north), had the indices 5k and 3k. See the first 5 photos. They show: 1 test ship "sever", a kind of Soviet gemini 2. sever 3 upper stage 4 docking of upper stages; then the north docked with the" train " of upper stages. 5 sever is ready to fly around the moon. The flight was planned to be manned. Unfortunately, the program was quickly closed, immediately switching to Soyuz.
Now just about that. The first project of "soyuz" was called soyuz-a. 6 photo - its model (there should still be solar panels, see below). Then it docked with the upper stage soyz-b and went to the moon (7 and 8 photos). Pay attention to the similarity of Shenzhou with this project. Well, as a bonus, I attach the final project of a manned flyby of the moon, 3 variations of the r-56 Yangel rocket and Afanasyev's book "non-light ships", from where I took most of the information. Enjoy

After some consideration of the types of spacecraft from all the various Soviet design bureaus, unless some new data comes up, i going to go with Sever style spacecraft designs for Yangel and his moon profiles…in my game/sim LIFTOFF! 2.0
I know its on shaky ground, but this at least brings the forgotten Sever designs into the limelight by being used In the sim. I can always update it, if some hidden gem, illustrations ever come up… Yangel‘s plan was focused on lots of assembly in EOR and Sever seems like such a good fit With his R-56 etc.
Thoughts, reactions or suggestions?