Rare USSR Astronaut School Album – Soyuz – Soviet Uninion – With various signatures – 1977

Rare difficult to find and official Soviet Space (Engineering) Academy memorial album, given to a graduate. It reads;To Comrade Pogozhelsky E.Zh.In memory of your studies at theAir Force Engineering Academydecorated with the Orders of Lenin and the October Revolution,the Red Banner Academynamed after Professor N. E. Zhukovsky.Below that are the signatures and titles:Chief of the AcademyEngineer Colonel-General V. Filippov(signature)Chief of the Political Department of the AcademyAviation Lieutenant-General A. Volkov(signature)At the bottom:27 January 1984MoscowSo this appears to be a presentation or graduation keepsake given to someone named Pogozhelsky E.Zh. upon completing studies at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy in Moscow in 1984. The academy was one of the Soviet Union's premier aerospace and aviation engineering institutions.A must-have for the Space or Aerospace collector, great and difficult to find album! See also our other interesting WW2 items that we offer for auction on catawiki!