Its “chief designer” was Sergei Korolev, head of the Soviet spaceflight program — though some researchers say a different scientist was the quiet brain of the operation.

Norfolk actor Bill Armstrong portrayed Sergei Korolev -- the father of Sputnik -- in a production that came to Studio Roanoke in 2009.

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.

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 ...

The text of the speech by S.P.Korolev RSC Energia Designer General, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yu.P.Semenov at the unveiling of the monument to V.P. Glushko on October 4, 2001 ...

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 ...

January 12, 2002 is the 95th birthday of Chief Designer of rocket and space systems academician Sergei Pavlovich Korolev – an outstanding scientist, organizer, the man who put the space scien… ...

The Soviet space programme suffers its own blows: Sergei Korolev dies when his heart fails during an operation, Soyuz 1 crashes and kills cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, and their planned moon rocket ...

After that the crews visited Sergei Korolev’s memorial house where an exposition featuring personal belongings of the Soviet space program’s chief designer, his library, household items, and ...