Forgotten Soviet Rockets - Did Ukraine Designers Make The Best Soviet Rockets?

When discussing Soviet space history we mostly talk about the R-7 (Sputnik, Vostok, Molniya, Soyuz) and Proton rockets, but there were a bunch of other rockets developed primarily in what is now Ukraine, many of these were derived from ballistic missiles.

And because many important Soviet ballistic missiles - the R-12, R-14, R16 & R36 were developed at OKB-586 in Dnipro these ended up in Ukraine after the break up of the USSR

Lots of this work is based on research by Norbert Brugge
https://b14643.eu/Spacerockets_1/East_Europe_2/East_Europe_2.htm
https://b14643.eu/Spacerockets_1/East_Europe_3/East_Europe_3.htm

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