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    Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became...
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    On March 27, 1968, Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space, died together with pilot Vladimir Seryogin during a routine training flight, after the...
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    55°52′28″N 38°06′54″E / 55.8745°N 38.115°E / 55.8745; 38.115 The Yuri A. Gagarin State Scientific Research-and-Testing Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC;...
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    Monument to Yuri Gagarin is a 42.5-meter high pedestal and statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first person to travel in space. It is located at Leninsky Prospekt...
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    The Statue of Yuri Gagarin in Greenwich, London, is a zinc statue depicting the cosmonaut wearing a spacesuit and standing on top of a globe. The 3.5-metre...
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  • Yuri Gagarin is a rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden. Formed in 2012, the band consists of lead guitarist Christian "Crille" Lindberg, rhythm guitarist...
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    Vostok 1 (category Yuri Gagarin)
    launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 12 April 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to reach orbital velocity around the...
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    and is named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. The Cup was supposedly named after Gagarin because the last possible game of...
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  • first human to launch into space, Yuri Gagarin, who flew the Vostok 1 spaceship on April 12, 1961. In 2011, Yuri's Night was celebrated at over 567 events...
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    Russian mechanical engineer, former cosmonaut and former head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. As a prominent rocket scientist, he is a veteran...
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    with another celestial body, Belka and Strelka, the first human being, Yuri Gagarin, into space, Voskhod 1, and the first person, Alexei Leonov, to conduct...
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  • космосе) is a 2013 Russian docudrama biopic about the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, and the 1961 mission of Vostok 1. It was released by Central Partnership...
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    Force Group One"; he and the others reported to the newly formed TsPK (Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center) just outside Moscow for assignment on 13 March...
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    training center "Chernihiv" (formerly Stadion Yuriya Gagarina). The Stadion Yuri Gagarin in Chernihiv and it was built in 1936 for 3,000 spectators in eastern...
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    Valentina Ivanovna Gagarina (category Yuri Gagarin)
    December 15, 1935 – March 17, 2020) was the wife of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Valentina Goryacheva was born on December 15, 1935, in Orenburg, in...
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    Yuri Gagarin Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Varna, Bulgaria. It was initially used as the stadium of Cherno More Varna and Spartak Varna. It was...
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  • Gagarin may refer to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), the first man to travel in outer space. Gagarin may also refer to: Gagarin (surname) or...
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  • that the Soviet Union attempted to launch human spaceflights before Yuri Gagarin's first spaceflight, and that cosmonauts onboard died in those attempts...
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    The funeral of Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Seryogin on 29–30 March 1968 consisted of a joint farewell ceremony, a funeral procession and the burial of their...
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    Roscosmos. The launchpad for the world's first human spaceflight made by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 in 1961, the site was referred to as Site No.1 (Площадка...
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  • important space missions, including the world's first space watch worn by Yuri Gagarin. Founded in 1930 under orders from Joseph Stalin, the First State Watch...
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    Western Front. In 1968, the town was renamed Gagarin in honor of the first person to travel into space, Yuri Gagarin, who was born in 1934 in the nearby village...
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    became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1. He was the fourth person in space, counting suborbital voyages...
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  • a great victory. Yuri Gagarin's 1961 flight into space was seen by many as another Sputnik moment. Khrushchev stated that Gagarin's flight was the "....
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    detecting and receiving satellite communications. Named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the ship was completed in December 1971 to support the Soviet space...
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    Klushino (category Yuri Gagarin)
    named Gagarin), and it was the site of a major battle during the Polish–Muscovite War (1605–18). The village is best known as the birthplace of Yuri Gagarin...
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    Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov (SSTU, Russian: Саратовский государственный технический университет имени Гагарина Ю.А.) was founded...
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    International Day of Human Space Flight (category Monuments and memorials to Yuri Gagarin)
    held on 12 April, of the anniversary of the first human space flight by Yuri Gagarin (USSR). It was proclaimed at the 65th session of the United Nations General...
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    [citation needed] In February 2012, the Russian Government excluded the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center from the list of organizations served by military...
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    Yuri Gagarin Street (Serbian: Улица Јурија Гагарина / Ulica Jurija Gagarina) is a major street in New Belgrade, named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin...
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