A Russian rocket is displayed above the main entrance of the Samara Space Museum in Samara, Russia, June 22, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray
SAMARA, Russia (Reuters) - Samara, once the secretive heart of the Soviet Union's space programme, is opening up as a World Cup host venue.
The city, known as Kuybyshev until 1991, was the primary manufacturing hub that made the rocket that took Yuri Gagarin on his journey to become the first human into outer space in 1961.
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