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The journalist of Komsomolskaya Pravda visited RSC Energia, where Pavel Vinogradov, former cosmonaut and now deputy head of the Flight and Space Center, showed him the test mockup of the #Zvezda module and gave comments regarding the situation with cracks. kp.ru/daily/27259/43… 
The article contains interesting photos like this one. This is the place where the first crack was found - of course, the photo was taken in the test mockup. It's a twin of the real Zvezda module, and is used to rehearse all the operations before they are performed in orbit.
This is the photo of the first crack through the Japan made electronic microscope brought to the ISS be Progress MS-16. Pavel Vinogradov said, this crack is so small that it cannot be seen with the naked eye.
