Soyuz console
Fighter jet and spaceship cockpits seem to fascinate me and that of the Soyuz is no exception; unfortunately there are no detailed diagrams or manuals publically-available on the Internet that I know of!
The following diagrams are ones I have collected from various places, and are the best I can do at the moment.
The Soyuz TM Information Display System is called the “Neptune”, «Нептун»; for the TMA it is the Neptune ME. Some of the buttons and controls on the console can’t be reached without a stick to poke at them! (I don’t know what the stick is called.)
The computer used on the Soyuz is called Argon, «Аргон». The version on the TMA is the Argon-16. From TMA-13 a new computer, the TsVM-101, ЦВМ-101, will be used.
Some of the Russian translations below are uncertain or unclear (I couldn’t find exact definitions for them).
Soyuz

SOI “Sirius” for the Soyuz 7K and Soyuz A8 spaceships
- Command-alarm devices.
- Navigation indicator.
- Console alarm.
- Cylinder pressure indicator.
- Digital information input unit.
- Program controls indicator.
- Combined electronic indicator.
- Distance and speed indicator.
- Time.
- Cabin parameters indicator.
- Pressure and electric current indicator.
СОИ «Сириус» кораблей – Союз-7К», Союз-А8»
- Командно-сигнальные устройства.
- Навигационный индикатор.
- Табло сигнальное.
- Индикатор давления в баллонах.
- Блок ввода цифровой информации.
- Индикатор контроля программ.
- Комбинированный электронный индикатор.
- Индикатор расстояния и скорости.
- Часы.
- Индикатор параметров кабины.
- Индикатор напряжения и тока.
Soyuz T

Descent module console SOI “Neptune” for the Soyuz T spaceship
- Voltage and current indicator.
- Indicator and manual information input unit for the onboard computer.
- KEI – Integrated? Electronic Indicator. (Meaning uncertain for комбини-рованный)
- Navigation position indicator.
- Command-alarm panels with matrix selection of the control objects.
- KEI signal parameter unit.
- Important commands buttons.
- Alarm panels.
- Fuel consumption indicator.
- Clock.
Пульт спускаемого аппарата СОИ «Нептун» кораблей «Союз Т»
- Индикатор напряжения и тока.
- Индикатор и пульт ручного ввода информации в ЭВМ.
- КЭИ – комбини-рованный электронный индикатор.
- Навигационный индикатор.
- Командно-сигнальные пульты с матричным избиранием объектов управления.
- Блок вызова параметров на КЭИ.
- Кнопки особоважных команд.
- Сигнальные табло.
- Счетчик расхода топлива.
- Часы.
Soyuz TM

The SOI “Neptune” console for the Soyuz TM Descent Module is the same as for the Soyuz T, but the KEI dial has been replaced by an electronic display. The clock is electronic.
Пульт спускаемого аппарата СОИ «Нептун» кораблей «Союз-ТМ». Приборы те же, что на рис. «Союз Т», кроме часов и КЭИ. КЭИ без шкального устройства Шкалы формируются электронным способом. Часы электронные.
Soyuz TMA

Descent module PSA console SOI “Neptune” for the Soyuz TMA spaceship
- INPU command unit.
- Color VGA monitor.
- Alarm and safety devices (circuit breakers).
- Voltage meter.
- Sokol suit fans.
- Status indicators.
- Monochrome VGA monitor.
- Critical command buttons.
Пульт ПСА спускаемого аппарата СОИ «Нептун» корабля «Союз ТМА»
- Блок управления маркером.
- Цветной VGA монитор.
- Предохранители и сигнализация.
- Индикатор напряжения.
- Тумблеры вентиляторов.
- Табло.
- Монохромный VGA-монитор.
- Кнопки особоважных команд.
The MARS Center site has some nice (though low-resolution) illustrations of the TMA console on their site:
Diagrams
- Soyuz hand controllers diagram, from a NASA Apollo-Soyuz technical manual. (Ручки управления, ruchki upravleniya)
- Soyuz TM cockpit (137 KB): the linked photo has a brief description of the Soyuz TM console taken from a book, At the Controls: The Smithsonian National Air And Space Museum Book of Cockpits. I saw this in a military bookstore around 2003; it was too expensive to buy, but I was able to jot down the description of the panel while in the bookstore! It was listed as the “Soyuz TM-10 Vulkan”.
- MARS Center:
- Inside Soyuz TMA: the Neptune control panel (external link, 63 KB)
- Inside the Soyuz TMA. Photograph of the console. (External link, 78 KB)
Links
- African in Space: Photos of Soyuz TM and Soyuz TMA cockpits
- Institute of Aircraft Equipment, НИИАО: developers of the Soyuz information systems and related spacecraft and aircraft technologies. “The IDS for Soyuz TMA and the ISS” essay is also available here. The console photos are from a PDF document (in Russian) on the Information Display Systems for manned space craft and cosmonaut trainers page. (Note: website seems to be offline?)
- MARS Center: Soyuz: Inside the capsule. Technical drawings of the inside of the Soyuz TMA.
- MIT: “IDS for Soyuz TMA and the ISS”: essay by Yurii Tiapchenko featuring lots of details about the information display systems of the Soyuz and Zvezda Service Module (also at Space Encyclopedia ASTROnote)