Venera Gallery
Venera 13 mockup at the Cosmos Pavillion in Moscow. The lander
module in the foreground would sit inside the brown sphere atop
the Venera spacecraft (background).
Landing sequence for the Venera spacecraft
Venera 8 during prelaunch testing
Photograph of the Venera 13 mockup at the Cosmos Pavillion in Moscow is courtesy of Sky & Telescope. The illustration of the Venera spacecraft landing sequences is courtesy of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.