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World's First Cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin Landed

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May, 1961 Moscow The spot where a pole stands on this field is the place where on April 12;1961 world's first Cosmonaut Maj. Yuri Gagarin landed.

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Yuri Gagarin at the 'May Day' Parade

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The picture on top shows Major Yuri Gagarin (centre), the world's first spaceman, standing between Soviet premier Nikita Krushev (left) and President Leonid Brezhnev on a balcony of the Lenin Mausoleum to watch the traditional 'May Day' parade in ...

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