Vladimir Putin has drawn a parallel between Elon Musk and a key figure in the Soviet space race, Sergei Korolev, praising the SpaceX founder as a visionary. Speaking on Russia's space policy at a ...

Korolev had already begun a promising career as an aircraft designer when, in 1938, then 31, he was arrested during the campaign of political repression under Stalin, and sent to a gulag camp in ...

We see Sergei Korolev's release from the Gulag, and how he is set to work on Soviet rockets, first attempting to copy the V-2, then building a more efficient rocket of his own. 80. 2.

IN FOCUS: Sergei Borisovich Korolev, the first deputy director of the FSB, is said by European officials to have emerged a winner behind the scene in the Russian president’s recent Kremlin ...

According to the Russian news agency’s translation, Putin said: You know, there’s a man — he lives in the States — Musk, who, one might say, raves about Mars.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the 1950s and 1960s, state news ...

Putin went on to compare Musk to the late Soviet rocket pioneer, Sergei Korolev. Korolev, who died in 1966, was the lead rocket engineer and designer for the Soviet Union's satellites and rockets.

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk on Wednesday, telling university students he was a pioneer comparable to legendary Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev.

IN FOCUS: Sergei Borisovich Korolev, the first deputy director of the FSB, is said by European officials to have emerged a winner behind the scenes in the Russian president’s recent Kremlin ...

Putin went on to compare Musk to the late Soviet rocket pioneer, Sergei Korolev. Korolev, who died in 1966, was the lead rocket engineer and designer for the Soviet Union's satellites and rockets.