Is there anything Soviet made still in space?

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Russia's Mir-2
Main articles: Mir-2, Salyut, Almaz, and Mir
The Russian Buran Space shuttle would have carried modules up to 30tons to MIR-2. 80-100 ton modules would have used its launcher without the shuttle

The Russian Orbital Segment (ROS or RS) is the eleventh Soviet-Russian space station. Mir and the ISS are successors to the Salyut and Almaz stations. Mir-2 was originally authorized in the February 1976 resolution setting forth plans for development of third generation Soviet space systems. The first MIR-2 module was launched in 1986 by an Energia heavy-lift expendable launch system. The launcher worked properly, however the Polyus payload fired its engines to insert itself into orbit whilst in the wrong position due to a programming error, and re-entered the atmosphere. The planned station changed several times, but Zvezda was always the service module. The station would have used the Buran space shuttle and Proton rockets to lift new modules into orbit. The spaceframe of Zvezda, also called DOS-8 serial number 128, was completed in February 1985 and major internal equipment was installed by October 1986. [62]

The Polyus module or spacecraft, which would have served the same function as Zarya, looked like a "Salyut" slightly modified for this task and was made up from parts of the ships "Cosmos-929, -1267, -1443, -1668" and from modules of MIR-2 station. There are two different descriptions of the weapon systems. In one, Polyus is described as a space-borne nuclear bomber, in another it is described as a satellite interceptor, carrying a 1 MegaWatt carbon dioxide laser. The module had a length of almost 37 m and a diameter of 4.1 m weighed nearly 80 t and included 2 principal sections, the smallest, the functional service block (FGB) and the largest, the aim module. [63]

In 1983, the design was changed and the station would consist of Zvezda, followed by several 90 metric ton modules and a truss structure similar to the current station. The draft was approved by NPO Energia Chief Semenov on 14 December 1987 and announced to the press as 'Mir-2' in January 1988. This station would be visited by the Russian Space Shuttle Buran, but mainly resupplied by Progress-M2 spacecraft. Orbital assembly of the station was expected to begin in 1993.[62] In 1993 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, a redesigned smaller Mir-2 was to be built whilst attached to Mir, just as OPSEK is being assembled whilst attached to the ISS.

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Zarya {the first module} was paid for by the United States space agency NASA and was built from December 1994 to January 1998 in Russia at the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center (KhSC) in Moscow.

Krasniy_Volk wrote:

I doubt that very much, considering that the idea was conceived a couple of years sfter the ussr ceased to exist

Krasniy_Volk wrote:

Did you read the links in this thread? It's pretty clear the building of the first module of the ISS began TWO years after the Soviet Union went down

Krasniy_Volk wrote:

Yeah, but I think that talking about tech origins is to walk a fine line, since scientific advances and technologies are usually not clean-cut - consider how much of the US space program was inspired by nazi rocketry, for instance, yet we don't attribute it to them beyond the fact that von Braun was in charge of both.

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I tried to talk to a Russian friend about Soviet scientific advances once, and got told that all the advances made during the Soviet era were actually based on discoveries made in the Tsarist era!

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Not that I totally agree with that, but I imagine in some areas (such as medicine) there may be some truth to that. I dunno, just speculation on my part, don't shoot me for saying it, komrades!

Loz wrote:

I don't know.Which ones? The nuclear power plant for example?