Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Literary historian Vladimir Brljak tells the tale of the intrepid balloonists who first flew beyond the blue terrestrial sky ...
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March 9, 1934: The birth of Yuri Gagarin
Born on March 9, 1934, to Russian farmers, Yuri Gagarin worked as a foundry apprentice and attended a technical high school where he joined the "AeroClub." In 1955, he began military flight training, ...
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Yuri Gagarin: Soviet Man in Space
This silent archival film captures a series of rare and intimate moments featuring Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space. The footage shows Gagarin in a variety of ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Dub from Russian LP in Russian language. Excerpts from a speech by Nikita Khrushchev on the occasion of the launch of Yuri Gagarin April 12, 1961 ...
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