SOVIET SATELLITE OF MILITARY "KOSMOS" SERIES - 80-s MADE 9" DESKTOP COMPOSITION

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SOVIET SATELLITE OF MILITARY "KOSMOS" SERIES - 80-s MADE 9" DESKTOP COMPOSITION
It's offered to your attention the desktop composition consisting of the model of the
Soviet satellite of military"KOSMOS" series
flying around the globe. The model body, its antennas and its trace are made of metal, the solar batteries are made of plastic, the globe is made of solid piece of glass. The composition is fixed on solid metal pedestal with grainy surface. The composition was a present "To collective of KB ATO from KB on May 23, 1980", what is engraved on the pedestal.
The Russian abbriviation "KB ATO" stands for "Design Bureau of Automobile Transportation Equipment". Currently, the KB ATO is part of the nuclear-weapon complex of Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency. For almost 50 years of activity, the enterprise team created more than 400 samples of special equipment for the needs of the nuclear industry, resolved the issues of creating vehicle-type hardware complexes for conducting physical measurements of the parameters of underground tests of nuclear weapons at the test sites Nevada (USA) and Semipalatinsk (USSR) and implemented a number of other projects in the interests of ensuring Russia's defense.
The abbriviation "KB" means just the "Design Bureau" meaning the OKB-1 with its headquarters in the current Korolev city (former Kaliningrad) and the satellite production branch in the current Samara city (former Kuibyshev).
Height - 9" (or 225 mm).
Material of the model - metal body and antennas, plastic solar batteries.
CONDITION - almost excellent,
except faded colors of the solar batteries and slightly bent and frail antennas.
Made in USSR.
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