Juri Alexejewitsch Gagarin (1934-1968)
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- Name (English)
- Juri Alexejewitsch Gagarin
- Short name
- Yuri Gagarin
- Year of birth
- 1934
- Year of death
- 1968
- Short Description
- "Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin [a] (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, achieving a major milestone in the Space Race; his capsule Vostok 1 completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation´s highest honour.
Born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (a town later renamed after him), in his youth Gagarin was a foundryman at a steel plant in Lyubertsy. He later joined the Soviet Air Forces as a pilot and was stationed at the Luostari Air Base, near the Norwegian border, before his selection for the Soviet space programme with five other cosmonauts. Following his spaceflight, Gagarin became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre, which was later named after him. He was also elected as a deputy of the Soviet of the Union in 1962 and then to the Soviet of Nationalities, respectively the lower and upper chambers of the Supreme Soviet." - (en.wikipedia.org 29.01.2020) - Entity Encoding
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Gedenkmedaille "Jurij Gagarin", Sowjetunion, 1961
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Brustabzeichen "Jurij Gagarin", Sowjetunion, nach 1961
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WV 132, "Raumfahrt"/"Geschichte der Luftfahrt"
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Festprogramm zum "Tag des deutschen Bergmannes", Merkers
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