Star City is situated forty kilometers north-east from Moscow.
It consists of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre and a residential area. It is a big scientific research complex, virtual space academy that all Russian and many foreign cosmonauts have gone through. The centre is equipped with numerous simulators and unique installations which help to prepare a man for work under the conditions of a spaceflight. Cosmonauts undergo specific training of the vestibular system to ensure their normal functions in weightlessness. One can see the neutral buoyancy simulator which is used for simulation of the extravehicular activity outside of the space station.