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Working in the space industry ( European ASTRIUM company, ex Daimler-Chrysler Aerospace, ex Daimler-Benz Aerospace, ex Deutsche Aerospace, ex MBB-ERNO, ex ERNO-Raumfahrttechnik ;-), I had the chance to work at RSC Energia near Moscow for a few weeks some years ago, which raised my interest in Russian space flight history. 
On that occasion, there was also an opportunity to visit their exhibition of Russian spaceflight history, with a remarkable collection of returned resp. prototypes of non-returned spacecraft.
I also had the chance to get a copy of the illustrated (in fact, almost all pictures with some pages of text in the beginning) 'S.P.KOROLEV SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA' (published in 1994), from which I have taken the pictures below (double-click on pictures for large versions).
In case of copyright (held by RSC Energia, IMHO) or other questions, you may contact me via the '@'-button in the left frame

    BTW: Would be nice if someone could help me with translation of the Russian text in the drawings (especially the hand-written notes in the engineering drawing, despite some fine details have been lost in the print raster).

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Sputnik 1 prototype at RSC Energia museum

Sputnik 1 prototype at RSC Energia exhibition

Sputnik 1 prototype at RSC Energia museum

Closeup of the internal structure

Sputnik 1 prototype at RSC Energia museum

Sputnik 1 technical drawings, apparently from 1957 and revised in '59. Caption in the lower left identifies drawing as No. 333/57, which was struck out and added  some '59 date above, apparently changing some antenna part numbering details.

 

Drawings of Sputnik 1 mounting and internal 
structure, original date unknown.

The R7 launcher – an oversized intercontinental nuclear missile that lifted Sputnik into orbit.

Oct 4, 1957 – Launch of Sputnik1, Earth's first artificial satellite

Some Sputnik 1 links :