One small step for man...

...one giant leap for mankind.

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planned laser probing of the Martian moon Phobos by a Soviet Phobos spacecraft. 

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a view of NASA’s Voyager 1 during its flyby of the Jovian moon Io showing the volcanic plumes discovered by this mission 

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This is a depiction of the separation of the modules on a 7K-T spacecraft used to ferry crews to the Soyuz prior to the spacecraft’s reentry. 

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This painting by Sokolov showing the Soviet Salyut 6 space station in orbit has the distinction of being the first artwork flown in space. It arrived at the Salyut 6 space station on March 3, 1978 aboard Soyuz 28 flown by Soviet cosmonaut Aleksey Gubarev and Vladimir Remek of Czechoslovakia as part of the first Interkosmos mission. The painting was returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 30 on July 5, 1978 by the crew of Pyotr Klimuk and Miroslaw Giermaszewski of Poland after spending 124 days in orbit spanning two long-duration Salyut missions. 

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Here is a depiction of an advanced 4V Venera lander on the surface of Venus like those in October 1975 as part of the Venera 9 and 10 mission 

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During the early 1970s, the Soviet Union launched pairs of landers to Mars in 1971 and 1973 hoping to beat the upcoming Viking missions. This painting shows that Soviet Mars lander during its parachute descent to the surface of the Red Planet. 

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night launch of a Soyuz from the Baikonur Cosmodrome 

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Sokolov depicts the separation of the first Sputnik from the core of its 8K71PS launch vehicle following its successful launch on October 4, 1957 

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a view of an early R-7 rocket (used by the USSR as its first ICBM and its first satellite launch vehicle) after the engines of its Blok A core have shutdown. 

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A stunning shot of the launch of the Soyuz MS-13 mission (20/07/2019) carrying three new crew members destined for the International Space Station. Credit: Roscosmos