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  =====Before buying, write to me. We will discuss how best to pay the lot.=======   1932 Rynin Astronavigation Chronicle and Bibliography Fligt Rocket Space 1000 copies  This unique item is from exe-USSR (Russia). This is one of the book from rare set of 9 books by famous Russian professor Rynin encyclopedia of space travel called the Mezhplanetnye Soobschniya ('Interplanetary Communications'). This item contains volume Cosmics Astronavigation. Condition is good enough. Languages is Russian. There are 218 pages. Year of publication is 1932. Size:27 x 18 cm= 10.8" x 7.2" inch Soft Cover 1000 copies only. Nikolai Rynin (23 December 1887 – 28 July 1942) was a Russian civil engineer, teacher, aerospace researcher, author, historian, and promoter of space travel. Rynin began his career in civil engineering, working in the railway industry. However, in 1906 he developed an interest in aircraft and manned flight. During his career he performed research in aeronautics, became a balloonist and aircraft pilot, taught aerospace topics as a professor in Leningrad, and wrote various books and articles on airplanes and space travel. In the April 1918  Rynin published Nikolai Kibalchich's description of a manned, rocket-propelled ship. Between 1928 and 1932 he published a nine-volume encyclopedia of space travel called the Mezhplanetnye Soobschniya ("Interplanetary Communications"). He is known to have corresponded with peers in the West, including Robert H. Goddard in 1926, concerning Russian rocketry activities. Rynin died from a combination of starvation and illness during the German siege of Leningrad, as did fellow spaceflight promoter Yakov Perelman.      Made in Soviet Russia .     Good condition - see photo for details A PIECE OF COLLECTION! HAVE A LOOK! PICTURE DESCRIBES IT BETTER!