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Also Known As Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
Born March 9, 1934 • near Gzhatsk • Russia
Died March 27, 1968 (aged 34)
Awards And Honors Order of Lenin

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Yuri Gagarin in a spacesuit and helmet sits in preparation for the first manned space flight in 1961, with two uniformed men standing behind him.
Orenburg, Russia: monument to Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev
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Soviet astronaut Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova
Soviet cosmonaut
Andriyan Nikolayev
Andriyan Nikolayev
Soviet cosmonaut
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Gherman Stepanovich Titov
Soviet cosmonaut
Bykovsky, 1963
Valery Bykovsky
Soviet cosmonaut
Pavel Popovich on Vostok 4
Pavel Popovich
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Alexander Volkov
Russian pilot and cosmonaut
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Strekalov.
Gennady Mikhailovich Strekalov
Russian cosmonaut
Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyov.
Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyov
Soviet cosmonaut
Konstantin Feoktistov
Konstantin Feoktistov
Russian cosmonaut
Kubasov, Valery
Valery Kubasov
Russian cosmonaut
Valery Polyakov
Valery Vladimirovich Polyakov
Soviet cosmonaut
Aleksei Leonov
Aleksei Leonov
Soviet cosmonaut
cosmonaut; Voskhod I
Boris Borisovich Yegorov
Soviet physician
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Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov
Soviet cosmonaut
cosmonaut; Voskhod I
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov
Soviet cosmonaut
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Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev
Soviet cosmonaut
Mirosław Hermaszewski
Mirosław Hermaszewski
Polish pilot
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Abdul Ahad Mohmand
Afghan pilot and cosmonaut
Farkas, Bertalan
Bertalan Farkas
Hungarian pilot and cosmonaut
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez smiles in a white and blue spacesuit with mission patches, posing against a plain blue background.
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
Cuban pilot and cosmonaut

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