Korolyov Cosmonaut Museum

The Korolyov Cosmonaut Museum, named after acclaimed Soviet rocket engineer and local hero Sergey Korolyov, is well known throughout the former Soviet Union. Suitably space-aged music plays and fake stars glimmer as you walk around a dark room packed with various trappings of the Soviet space program, including several satellites, lunar rocks and an actual Soyuz rocket. The museum is modern and quite well done, but unless you’re a true space nut it’s probably not worth a special trip to Zhytomyr. Some of the museum’s placards are in English. The house where Korolyov was born, now a museum dedicated to his life, is directly across the street from the museum.