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Yuri Gagarin

Also known as Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, Yuriy Alekseyevich Gagarin, Yuriy Alexeyevich Gagarin, Yury Alekseyevich Gagarin, Yury Alexeyevich Gagarin, Yuriy Gagarin, Yury 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.

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Yury Gagarin, born Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin on March 9, 1934, in Klushino, was a Soviet astronaut, aircraft pilot, military officer, and politician. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was educated at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy. He served in the Soviet Air Forces and the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, holding ranks including colonel, podpolkovnik, major, and senior lieutenant. He was also a member of the First Group of Soviet cosmonauts and the International Academy of Astronautics.

Gagarin is recognized in the Astronauts collection for his significant event involving a spaceflight that lasted 108 minutes. He resided in the Soviet Union and spoke Russian. He was married to Valentina Ivanovna Gagarina, and they had a daughter named Yelena Gagarin. Gagarin died on March 27, 1968, in Novosyolovo due to an aircraft crash. He is buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.

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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human travel into outer space: his capsule, Vostok 1, completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.

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Георгий Бурков. "Не будем полагаться на случай" — Self (archive footage)2024
On a grandi ensemble2022
The Century of Icons — Self (archive footage)2022
The Longest Voyage — Self - Cosmonaut (archive footage)2020
Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice — Self - Cosmonaut (archive footage)2020
History 101 — Self (archive footage)2020
Moon: The Battles of Space — Self - Cosmonaut (archive footage)2019
Chasing the Moon — Self2019
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым — Self (archive footage)2016
The End of a Beautiful Epoch — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2015

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Instance of: human
Given name: Yury
Gender: male
Citizenship: Soviet Union
Place of birth: Klushino
Place of death: Novosyolovo
Spouse: Valentina Ivanovna Gagarina
Mother: Anna Gagarina
Occupation: explorer
Employer: Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Political party: Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Languages spoken: Russian
Participant in: 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Military branch: Soviet Air Forces
Military rank: lieutenant
Image: Yuri Gagarin portrait (colored).png
Height: 1.58
Residence: Soviet Union

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Commons category: Yuri Gagarin
date of birth: 1934-03-09
date of death: 1968-03-27
place of burial: Kremlin Wall Necropolis
topic's main category: Category:Yuri Gagarin
Commons gallery: Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин
member of: First group of Soviet cosmonauts
time in space: 108
cause of death: aircraft crash
birth name: Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
allegiance: Soviet Union
name in native language: Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин
P12749: Wenzel Jaksch
manner of death: accidental death
member of the crew of: Vostok 1
P450: Vostok 1

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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first person to journey into outer space during the first successful crewed spaceflight. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. The flight took 108 minutes. By achieving this major milestone for the Soviet Union amidst the Space Race, he became an international celebrity and earned numerous accolades, including his country's highest distinction: Hero of the Soviet Union.

Hailing from the village of Klushino in the Russian SFSR, Gagarin was a foundryman at a steel plant in Lyubertsy in his youth. He later joined the Soviet Air Forces as a pilot and was stationed at the Luostari Air Base, near the Norway–Soviet Union border, before his selection for the Soviet space programme alongside five other cosmonauts. Following his spaceflight, Gagarin became the 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, the lower and upper chambers of the Supreme Soviet respectively.

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