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Key facts
- Observed by
- Russia , former USSR
- Type
- Historical
- Significance
- A celebration to commemorate the first man in space
- Date
- 12 April
- Next time
- 12 April 2027 ( 2027-04-12 )
- Frequency
- Annual
- Related to
- Yuri's Night
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- holiday
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Main subject
- astronaut
- Image
- Soviet Union-1965-Stamp-0.12. Cosmonautics Day.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cosmonautics Day
- day in year for periodic occurrence
- April 12
- different from
- International Day of Human Space Flight
- native label
- День космонавтики
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Encyclopedic overview
Cosmonautics Day (Russian: День Космона́втики, romanized: Den' Kosmonávtiki) is an anniversary celebrated in Russia and some other post-Soviet states on 12 April. In 2011, at the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly, 12 April was declared as the International Day of Human Space Flight in dedication of the first crewed space flight made on 12 April 1961 by the 27-year-old Soviet Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Gagarin orbited the Earth for 1 hour and 48 minutes aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cosmonautics Day” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.