Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin

First human to journey into outer space

"I see Earth! It is so beautiful."

Articles

  • Soviet pilot-cosmonaut, the first earthling to go into space, Hero of the Soviet Union

    18.12.2022

    Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin is a pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, the first earthling to go into space, a Hero of the Soviet Union.

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  • Congress delegate

    18.12.2022

    In the post-flight biography of Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin there is one rather unsightly episode.

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  • Terrible secret

    18.12.2022

    On every anniversary of Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin’s flight into space, over and over again, articles about how Gagarin was not the first Soviet cosmonaut appear on the pages of periodicals.

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  • The Twenty Best

    18.12.2022

    In early August 1971, David Scott and James Irwin, astronauts of the Apollo 15 crew, landed on the Moon. In addition to scientific research, they carried out several symbolic activities, among which of particular importance was the installation of a miniature Memorial to the Space Explorers, who by that time had died. T

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  • First shoulder straps

    18.12.2022

    Yuri Alekseyevich Chkalov arrived to the city on October 25, 1955 and on November 8, 1957 he went to the place of regular service. Thus, he stayed in Chkalov for two full years.

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  • The first in space – Biography of Yuri Gagarin

    18.12.2022

    Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in the village of Klushino, Gzhatsky District of the Western Region (now Gagarinsky District of the Smolensk Region) in a peasant family.

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  • Cosmonautics Enthusiast

    18.12.2022

    Much more has been written about Saratov period of Yuri Gagarin’s life than about Lyubertsy period. It is understandable: at last the details of the future cosmonaut’s biography began to fit into the “legend” composed post factum.

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  • The simple Soviet Gagarin family from Klushin

    18.12.2022

     The world first heard about Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin on April 12, 1961, from a TASS message broadcast on the air at 10:2 Moscow time, almost an hour after the launch of the launch vehicle with the Vostok spaceship.

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  • Interesting facts about Yuri Gagarin’s flight

    18.12.2022

    On April 12, the world marks the 61st anniversary of the first human space flight. It was on this day in 1961 that the Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin first saw the Earth from orbit.

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  • Yuri Gagarin – the first man in space

    18.12.2022

    Yuri Gagarin – pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union, Commander of the highest insignia of several states, honorary citizen of many Russian and foreign cities.

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