The museum’s collection contains the layout of the house, where the cosmonaut Alexey Leonov was born. The author of the model — architect Andey Kokarev — used paper, cardboard, plywood, wooden blocks, plaster, clay parts, and wire in his work. This house is still in the village of Listvyanka in the northeast of Kemerovo. After the revolution of 1905, Leonov’s grandad was exiled to Siberia and later Leonov’s parents moved to the region. Before the Leonov family, the house belonged to a local potter Vasily Goncharov.
A village hut of 37.4 square meters is made of logs and has two rooms. There, on May 30, 1934, the eighth child in the Leonov family was born. The little boy was called Alexey. The family lived there until 1937: then, the head of the family Arkhip Leonov was repressed, and his wife and children had to move to their relatives in Kemerovo. He was discharged in 1939, and in 1947, the family moved to dad’s new work place in Kaliningrad.
The management board of a collective farm named after Stalin settled Korney Zagumennykh in the Leonovs’ house in Listvyanka. Nowadays, his daughter Tatyana Dyukareva lives there. The old hut has barely changed since that time. Only a plaque appeared on the wall of the house. Many tourists come to this historical monument. Alexey Leonov kept friendly relationships with the owner of the house and visited his native places every year: he liked to paint from the local nature and take photos.
Listvyanka was founded by 38 families in 1888. It took its name from greenwoods growing around. According to the 2010 census, there were 535 people living there. An urban forest was planted in Listvyanka in honor of the joint Soviet-American flight ‘Apollo-Soyuz’. There are some trees that were planted by Alexey Leonov and his family members. In 2020, a sculptural composition ‘Road to the Stars’ appeared in the center of the village. It is a bronze bust of the cosmonaut placed on a two-meter granite pedestal and a stela made of forged copper with the image of the Earth, orbit and satellite behind the bust. It is complemented by Leonov’s quote:
A village hut of 37.4 square meters is made of logs and has two rooms. There, on May 30, 1934, the eighth child in the Leonov family was born. The little boy was called Alexey. The family lived there until 1937: then, the head of the family Arkhip Leonov was repressed, and his wife and children had to move to their relatives in Kemerovo. He was discharged in 1939, and in 1947, the family moved to dad’s new work place in Kaliningrad.
The management board of a collective farm named after Stalin settled Korney Zagumennykh in the Leonovs’ house in Listvyanka. Nowadays, his daughter Tatyana Dyukareva lives there. The old hut has barely changed since that time. Only a plaque appeared on the wall of the house. Many tourists come to this historical monument. Alexey Leonov kept friendly relationships with the owner of the house and visited his native places every year: he liked to paint from the local nature and take photos.
Listvyanka was founded by 38 families in 1888. It took its name from greenwoods growing around. According to the 2010 census, there were 535 people living there. An urban forest was planted in Listvyanka in honor of the joint Soviet-American flight ‘Apollo-Soyuz’. There are some trees that were planted by Alexey Leonov and his family members. In 2020, a sculptural composition ‘Road to the Stars’ appeared in the center of the village. It is a bronze bust of the cosmonaut placed on a two-meter granite pedestal and a stela made of forged copper with the image of the Earth, orbit and satellite behind the bust. It is complemented by Leonov’s quote:
