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1934<br>'The whole of my life is like one glorious moment for me.  I am like any Soviet man.  I was born on March 9th 1934 into the family of a farmer in the village of Klushino, Gzhatsk district, Smolensk Region.  Our house was second in line along the road to Gzhatsk.' - Yuri Gagarin.<br>Photo shows Gagarin's house in the village of Klushino.  He was born here and spent his childhood in this house. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1940s<br>After finishing the sixth form I was very serious about obtaining worker's qualifications, entering a factory and then continuing my education.  I went to a technical school in Lyubertsy near Moscow, where I began learning the trade of a moulder." - Yuri Gagarin.<br>Photo shows Yuri Gagarin, a student of the technical school.<br> <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1940s<br>The school museum keeps with care this photograph showing Yuri (third from the left in the second row) in his school years. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1941<br>81-2076  Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) - first man in space, as a child at school. He entered the Klushino school September 1, 1941. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1953<br>Yuri Gagarin (center), a student of the Saratov Industrial Polytechnic, with friends.   <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1955<br>Yuri Gagarin in a sports plane of a Saratov air club.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1958<br>Gagarin piloting a plane when serving in the Transpolar Area 1958 <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1960<br>Major Yuri Gagarin, Russia's and the world's first spaceman. 12th April 1960 <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1960<br>Pilots German Titov (centre left) and Yuri Gagarin (centre 2nd left) with the cosmonaut training group study the space equipment.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1960<br>Yuri Gagarin preparing for a space flight.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961 <br>Anna Timofeyevna Gagarin, mother of the world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.<br>April 12th - Day of Cosmonautics. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961 <br>Sculptor Dmitri Postnikov at work on the sculptural portrait of  Yuri Gagarin <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>&quotThe newspapers made me happy and at the same time embarrassed me.  To become the centre of attention not only of one's country, but also of the whole world, is rather burdensome...  Greater emotional experiences were yet to come...   A plane was specially sent for me from Moscow.  The Soviet people were preparing an unprecedented reception for the first cosmonaut." - Yuri Gagarin. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>00023717  Sergie Korolyov (1907-1966) - Soviet rocket scientist who designed the early space rockets. At the control desk at the moment of launching Gagarin in Vostok-1, April 1961.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>67-10535 Yuri Gagarin - cosmonaut - in the spacecraft of Vostok-1 preparing to launch <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>71-13032  Yuri Gagarin - first man in space. With Sergei Korolyev before boarding the Vostok space-craft <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>81-1908	Yuri Gagarin on board the Vostok space-craft,April  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>81-1921   Yuri Gagarin - cosmonaut - on his way to the spacecraft, April 1961. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>82-9613  Vostok-1 - the landing of the space capsule containing Yuri Gagarin after one complete orbit round the Earth, 12 April 1961. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>86-6858  First team of Soviet cosmonauts, Sochi, May 1961.<br>1st row [L-R] P Popovich, V Gorbatko, Ye Khrunov, Yuri Gagarin, S Korolev (Ch. designer), N Koroleva & Popovich's daughter, Natasha, Ye Karpov (Hd cosmonaut team), N Nikitin (parachute trainer), Ye Federov (Dr). 2nd row: A Leonov, A Nikolaev, M Rafikov, D Zaikin, B Volynov, G Titov, G Filatyev, I Anikeyev, P Belyayev <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>98125	The formal welcome of the world’s first flier-cosmonaut and Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin in Moscow on April 14, 1961. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Anna Akimovna Takhtareva with her grandchildren Natasha and Rita.  Takhtareva and Rita were the first to see Yuri Gagarin at the moment he landed.<br>May 1961 <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Baikonur.  In this house Yuri Gagarin slept the night before the first space flight in the history of mankind.<br>April 11-12th 1961 <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Chief designer of the first rocket and space systems academician Sergei Korolev (left) and Soviet space pilot Yuri Gagarin (right) on the eve of the launch.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Cosmonaut Gagarin (center) getting ready for the mission. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin, the world's first spaceman, is picture after he stepped from his safely landed spaceship wearing a broad smile that means only one thing, Success. 13th April 1961. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard 'Vostok-1' spacecraft (from 'The Soviets in the Space' documentary). <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin before flying into space. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Cosmonaut Yury Gagarin before lifting off from the Baikonur space center on April 12, 1961.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee and Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikita Khrushchev talking over telephone with first cosmonaut Yury Gagarin.   <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Gagarin at Heathrow  Yuri Gagarin is welcomed at Heathrow airport in July 1961, less than 3 months after his historic orbiting of the Earth (April 12, 1961). One of his first visits abroad was to Britain following an invitation from Manchester foundry workers.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Hero of the Soviet Union Pilot-Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin upon the Vostok spaceship landing. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin, the world's first pilot-cosmonaut. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Khruschev meeting Yuri Gagarin (first man ever in space) in the Kremlin just after his first flight in Vostok-1.<br>April 12th 1961 <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Landing of 'Vostok-1 spacecraft with Yuri Gagarin on board.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Leonid Brezhnev, President of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, presents Yury Gagarin with a badge of the Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR.<br>April 14th  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Major Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space, on a visit to London for the Soviet Exhibition at Earl's Court.<br>London Airport - 11th July 1961 <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Moscow: Within this space capsule Vostok, the world's first spaceman, Major Yuri Gagarin, 27 year old former Red Air Force Pilot, is seen leaving the Earth.<br>15 April 1961  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Nikita Khruschev and Yuri Gagarin on the rostrum of the Lenin Mausoleum.<br>Moscow - 14th April 1961 <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Pilot Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin with his parents <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Russian Cosmonauts  Gagarin, Popovich , Titov and  Nikolayev <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>The world's first man in space, Yury Gagarin, Hero of the Soviet Union. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>USSR pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Yuri Gagarin - Russian astronaut and the first man to venture into space <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968).  World's first cosmonaut.  Vostok-1 was launched 12th April 1961.  Portrait of Gagarin in space Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin  born 9th March 1934, died 27th March 1968 - Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first human to travel into space.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Yuri Gagarin bidding farewell to friends before flying to space. A still from the film &quot10 Years of the Space Exploration Era".   <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Yuri Gagarin reports to the leaders of the CPSU and Soviet government about his successful flight <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1961<br>Yuri Gagarin, the world's first spaceman, left, and German Titov, who made the next flight  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1962<br>Pilot-Cosmonaut Gagarin giving a talk to workers at the Leningrad Steel Plant. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1962<br>Space pilot Yuri Gagarin (center) speaks at the Union Council meeting in the Kremlin.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1962<br>Yuri Gagarin, the world's first spaceman <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1962<br>Yuri Gagarin, the world's first spaceman <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1963<br>Cuba. Yuri Gagarin, first cosmonaut, welcomed in Havana by Fidel Castro. 1963. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1963<br>Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman-cosmonaut with fellow cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1963<br>Yuri Gagarin, the world's first astronaut, 1963.<br>Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (March 9, 1934 - March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first human in space and the first human to orbit the Earth. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1964<br>Ernesto &quotChe" Guevara (right) and Yuri Gagarin (left) at the Community Leaders' Conference in the Friendship House, Moscow, November 11, 1964.  Foundation of the Soviet-Cuban Friendship Society.   <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1964<br>Space pilot Yuri Gagarin (right) with his daughter Galya on vacation in Gurzuf.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1965<br>66-2021 Valentina Tereshkova and a mischievous Yuri Gagarin. 1965.      Photo by Valery Shustov.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1965<br>Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (right) and Raul Castro, Cuban deputy prime minister.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1965<br>French firm MATRA presented a sports two-seat car to the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at the International Aviation saloon in Paris held recently.  Gagarin seen with his car MATRA, the Cosmonaut's monument in the background.  <br>July 1965 <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1966<br>Composer Dmitry Shostakovich (left), composer Dmitry Kabalevsky (center) and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (right), deputies of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet (Parliament), talk to each other before second session of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1966<br>Gagarin and Alexei Leonov before training flights 1966 <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1966<br>March 9 is the birthday of the world's first cosmonaut Yury Gagarin /1934 - 1968/. Yury Gagarin with daughters Lena and Galya in 1966. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1966<br>Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR Yuri A Gagarin (1934-1968) during a fishing outing <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1966<br>Yuri Gagarin (1934- March 27th 1968) - being welcomed at the All-Union Pioneer Camp Artek in the Crimea.  A young pioneer places a red scarf about his neck.<br> <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1967<br>Pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR Yuri Gagarin in 1967. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1967<br>Pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin preparing for a flight mission in the cabin of the MIG-21 jet fighter. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1968 Funeral of heroes of the Soviet Union, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and Col. Engineer Vladimir Seryogin.<br>Photo shows Guard of Honour by the Kremlin Wall where the urns with the ashes of the heroes are immured. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1968<br>Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (far right) leaving an editorial office after his last interview.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1968<br>Gagarin (center) with his daughters Yelena (left) and Galina (right) during his last interview.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1968<br>Leonid Brezhnev, CPSU Central Committee Secretary General, right, and Alexei Kosygin, USSR Council of Ministers Chairman, left, in the funeral procession of Yuri Gagarin, the world's first spaceman, and pilot Engineer-Colonel Vladimir Seregin <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1968<br>People pay last respects to Heroes of the Soviet Union - Pilot-Cosmonaut of the U.S.S.R. Yury Gagarin and Colonel-Engineer Vladimir Seryogin - at Central House of Soviet Army.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1968<br>Valentina Gagarin (center), the widow of Yuri Gagarin, and her daughters, attending the burial of Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Seryogin on Red Square.    <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1968<br>Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman-cosmonaut at the funeral of Yuri Gagarin (the first man in space) with Gagarin's widow.<br>29th March 1968 <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1968<br>Yuri Gagarin and his two daughters Galya and Lena read a magazine.<br>March 27th 1968 <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1968<br>Yuri Gagarin with children Galya and Lena at home<br> <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1968<br>Yuri Gagarin with wife Valentina and children Galya and Lena at home.<br>March 27th 1968 <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1968<br>Yuri Gagarin's wife Valentina Gagarin attending the interment of pilot cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and Colonel Vladimir Seryogin in the Kremlin wall.   <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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