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Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first person to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961, with his flight taking 108 minutes. By achieving this major milestone for the Soviet Union amidst the Space Race, he became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including his country's highest distinction: Hero of the Soviet Union.
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
Gherman Titov
Soviet cosmonaut (1935-2000)
Valentin Glushko
Soviet rocket engineer (1908-1989)
Konstantin Feoktistov
Soviet cosmonaut
Mstislav Keldysh
Soviet mathematician and physicist (1911-1978)
Vladimir Chelomey
Soviey scientist and engineer (1914-1984)
Mikhail Yangel
Soviet engineer and missile designer
Kerim Kerimov
Soviet rocket scientist (1917–2003)
Boris Chertok
Soviet rocket designer (1912-2011)
Vladimir Ilyushin
Soviet and Russian test pilot (1927–2010)
Vasily Mishin
Soviet engineer (1917-2001)
Mitrofan Nedelin
Soviet marshal (1902–1960)
Georgy Babakin
Soviet aerospace engineer
Nikolai Kamanin
Soviet aviator and military commander (1908-1982)
Mikhail Tikhonravov
Soviet spaceflight scientist
Alexander Kemurdzhian
Soviet aerospace engineer (1921–2003)
Leonid Sedov
Russian physicist (1907-1999)
Anatoli Blagonravov
Soviet physicist (1894-1975)
Viktor Makeyev
Soviet engineer, rocket designer (1924-1985)
Vladimir Barmin
Soviet scientist
Nikolay Pilyugin
Soviet rocket control systems designer, scientist (1908-1982)
Boris Rauschenbach
Soviet physicist (1915-2001)
Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov
Soviet engineer
Sergey Afanasyev
engineer and minister of the Soviet Union (1918-2001)
Galina Balashova
Russian architect
Alexander Nadiradze
Soviet engineer (1914–1987)
Sergei Anokhin
Soviet test pilot and sportsman in gliding (1910-1986)
Oleg Gazenko
Soviet general and scientist
Zinaida Ershova
Russian chemist, physicist and engineer.
Dmitrii Kozlov
Soviet and Russian rocket designer (1919-2009)
Norair Sisakian
Soviet Armenian biochemist (1907-1966)
Dmitry Okhotsimsky
Russian mathematician (1921–2005)
Arkady Ostashev
Soviet engineer (1925–1998)
Sergei Izotov
Soviet scientist and jet engines designer (1917—1983)
Galaktion Alpaidze
Soviet lieutenant general, Hero of the Soviet Union (1916–2006)
Anatolii Dorodnitsyn
Russian mathematician (1910-1994)
Guy Severin
Soviet scientist, designer of aviation and space rescue and life support equipment for crew members
Andronik Iosifyan
Soviet aerospace engineer (1905–1993)
Konstantin Bushuyev
Soviet engineer and rocket designer (1914-1978)
Leonid Voskresensky
Soviet rocket engineer (1913-1965)
Konstantin Gerchik
Soviet Army general (1918-2001)
Vladimir Syromyatnikov
Russian scientist (1933–2006)
Oleg Ivanovsky
Russian engineer (1922-2014)