Star City

Beginning.

On January 11, 1960, the Directive of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force (Air Force) initiated the creation of the first Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC). Already on May 7, the Commander-in-Chief approved the Regulation on the Air Force CPC as an independent part of the Air Force for combat training through the head of the Air Force Aviation Medicine Service. Scientific management of the Center's work was carried out by the State Research and Testing Institute of Aviation and Space Medicine of the Air Force.

Initially, the Center was formed by a staff of 90 military personnel and 99 workers and employees. The conduct of training works during 1960 showed that for the comprehensive preparation of astronauts for flights on spacecraft, the current staff needs to be increased and the organizational structure established initially changed. To provide flight and certain types of special training for cosmonauts, the Center was assigned the 70th separate test training aviation regiment numbering 291 servicemen and 4 employees with a base at the Chkalovsky airfield.

From the history of the construction of the Star City

Gagarin 's name

On October 7, 1965, in accordance with the directive of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, the Central Committee of the Air Force was renamed the 1st Cosmonaut Training Center. On April 30, 1968, the Center was named after Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin.

As time went on, the tasks of training became more complicated, it became necessary to combine it with science and with the testing of new technology. The CPC, pursuant to the Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR of November 28, 1968 and the order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR of January 7, 1969, was transformed into the 1st Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Research Test Center. According to its status, it was equated to a category I research institute.

He has worked in this status of the CPC for more than a quarter of a century. Only its name changed a little in 1989: the number 1 was removed, it became clear that the Center would be the only one.

And even when the Soviet Union collapsed, the CPC continued to strictly fulfill its tasks. The crews prepared perfectly and went to space on schedule, worked there, returned and were replaced by new crews.

Finally, the legal regime of the CPC was brought into line with the new legislation. In August 1996, a Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation was adopted "On approval of the Regulations on the Gagarin Russian State Research and Testing Cosmonaut Training Center". The Center acquired a new status (dual subordination – to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and Roscosmos), which remained until the liquidation of the RGNIICPC and the creation of the federal state budgetary institution "Yu.A. Research Test Cosmonaut Training Center" on July 1, 2009. Gagarin", which is exclusively under the jurisdiction of Roscosmos in accordance with the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated October 1, 2008.

The history of the CPC as a military unit has ended, and a new stage of its history as a civilian organization has begun, which, however, was allowed to maintain a certain number of military personnel in its staff, primarily from among cosmonauts.

In 2009, in connection with the transfer of the Cosmonaut Training Center from the Ministry of Defense to the jurisdiction of Roscosmos, a closed administrative-territorial entity (BUT) was created on the basis of the town in accordance with the decree of the President of Russia D. A. Medvedev No. 68 of January 19, 2009. All BUT have the status of an urban district and are not part of municipal districts. The boundaries of the Zvezdny Gorodok urban district are defined by presidential decree, this territory was withdrawn from the Shchelkovsky district and the Shchelkovo urban settlement.

Prior to the formation of the city district's own authorities, the self-government bodies of the Shchelkovo urban settlement and the Shchelkovsky municipal district exercised the authority to resolve issues of local significance.

At the first elections held on June 28, 2009, the first Head of the city and the first composition of the Council of Deputies were elected.