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{{short description|Soviet space station programme}}
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{{Infobox space programme
| name            = ''Salyut'' programme
| image           = Salyut program insignia.svg
| caption         = ''Salyut'' programme insignia
| country         = [[Soviet Union]]
| purpose         = [[Space station]]
| programme       = y
| status          = Completed
| cost            = 
| duration        = 1971–1986
| firstflight     = [[Salyut 1|''Salyut'' 1]]
| firstcrewed     = [[Soyuz 10]]
| lastflight      = [[Soyuz T-15]]
| successes       = 71
| failures        = 10
| launchsite      = [[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]
| crewvehicle     = [[Soyuz (spacecraft)|Soyuz]]
| capacity        = 3
| launcher        = [[Proton-K]]
| native_name_a   = Салют Космическая Программа
| native_name_r   = Salyut Kosmicheskaya Programma
}}
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The '''''Salyut'' programme''' ({{langx|ru|Салют}}, {{IPA|ru|sɐˈlʲut|IPA}}, meaning "salute" or "fireworks") was the first [[space station]] programme, undertaken by the [[Soviet Union]]. It involved a series of four crewed scientific research space stations and two crewed military reconnaissance space stations over a period of 15 years, from 1971 to 1986. Two other ''Salyut'' launches failed. In one respect, ''Salyut'' had the space-race task of carrying out long-term research into the problems of living in space and a variety of astronomical, biological and Earth-resources experiments, and on the other hand, the USSR used this civilian programme as a cover for the highly secretive military ''[[Almaz]]'' stations, which flew under the ''Salyut'' designation. [[Salyut 1|''Salyut'' 1]], the first station in the program, became the world's first crewed space station.

''Salyut'' flights broke several [[spaceflight records]], including several mission-duration records, and achieved the first orbital handover of a space station from one crew to another, and various spacewalk records. The ensuing [[Soyuz programme]] was vital for evolving space station technology from a basic, engineering development stage, from single docking port stations to complex, multi-ported, long-term orbital outposts with impressive scientific capabilities, whose technological legacy continues {{as of|2023|lc=y}}.<ref name="Ivanovich2008" /> Experience gained from the ''Salyut'' stations paved the way for multimodular space stations such as ''[[Mir]]'' and the [[International Space Station]] (ISS), with each of those stations possessing a ''Salyut''-derived core module at its heart.

[[Mir-2|''Mir''-2]] (DOS-8), the final spacecraft from the ''Salyut'' series, became one of the first modules of the ISS. The first module of the ISS, the Russian-made ''[[Zarya (ISS module)|Zarya]]'', relied heavily on technologies developed in the ''Salyut'' programme.<ref name="Ivanovich2008">{{cite book|author=Grujica S. Ivanovich|title=Salyut - The First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EbDGMiXvdG0C|date=22 October 2008|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-73973-1}}</ref>