The LK spacecraft—The Lunniy korabyl ("Lunar Craft") was designed like the Apollo Lunar Module, with discrete descent & ascent stages, to land a single Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon & return him to lunar orbit; three uncrewed LKs flew test flights in low Earth orbit (Kosmos 379 in 1970 & Kosmos 398 & Kosmos 434 in 1971) & two boilerplate LKs were destroyed in the N1-6L & N1-7L launch failures.
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