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Yuri . 1934--68, Soviet cosmonaut: made the first manned space flight (1961)

Gagarin

(until 1968, Gzhatsk), a city in Smolensk Oblast RSFSR, on the Gzhat’ River (Volga basin). It was renamed in honor of Iu. A. Gagarin, the world’s first cosmonaut. It has a railroad station on the Moscow-Minsk line, 180 km west of Moscow. Population, 16,000 (1970). Gagarin has a branch of a Moscow television plant and a branch of the Moscow Elektrosvet Plant. It also has a dairy and canning combine, a zooveterinary technicum, a pedagogical school, a museum of local lore, and the Iu. A. Gagarin Memorial Museum.

Gagarin was founded as a landing for the shipment of grain to St. Petersburg. (The landing was officially opened upon Peter I’s ukase of Nov. 11, 1719.) It became a city in 1776. Gagarin was occupied by the fascist German invaders from Oct. 8, 1941, to March 1943.

Gagarin

an urban-type settlement in Sevan Raion, Armenian SSR; located on the left bank of the Razdan River. It has a railroad station on the Yerevan-Sevan line. There are plants for repairing power shovels and tower cranes. The settlement was founded in 1961 and named in honor of Iu. A. Gagarin.

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Futuristic purple horses and a colossal Yury Gagarin go on show in Versailles, as the royal palace shrugs off controversy and confirms its place as a major new exhibition space for contemporary art.

Cosmonaut, purple horses storm Versailles by AFP / AFP Global Edition

Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin are mentioned, but the emphasis is on American feats, with very little on the advances by European programs.

Aldrin, Buzz (text) Wendell Minor (paintings): Look to the Stars by Lees, Stella / Reading Time

1961: The Russians made the first manned space flight with Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1.

OnThisDay by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)

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