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pretty website about plesetsk cosmodrome http://www.plesetzk.ru
i really like the russian style of naming things. there's something very pretty about it. the americans would call something ‘the apollo program’, the russians would have named it ‘space program «apollon»’
a related fascination of mine is that i just like the way russian uses “object” more broadly than english does. or rather объе́кт, of course. apparently it means something like “facility”? calling such a thing an “object” just sounds fantastic to my english speaker brain
(and i know that translating it as “object” there would be incorrect, but let me enjoy the flavour)
@hikari I've often heard it used (non-slavic but russian-bordering) to refer to a specific building/facility/site that is the scope of e.g. construction or security monitoring, definitely has a military jargon vibe, like calling it an "objective" in english
@hikari I've seen the same word used in Latvia, with signs saying "militaras objekts" and a no cameras symbol