Department of National Archives, Sri Lanka

"Four Heavenly Brothers, Four Brave Communist-Cosmonauts"

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1962-8-23

Four heavenly brothers, four brave Communist-cosmonauts, friends of the same glorious feat (left to right) Yuri Gagarin, Adrian Nikolaev; Pavel Popovich an Gherman Titov seen here together. Photo by Spec. Corr of TASS A. Bryanov (photo by wire)

A. Bryanov

"Russia's Four Spacemen Together"

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1962-8-13

Moscow: Pictured here are the Soviet Union's four cosmonauts seen preparing to make their next parachute jump when they were in training. Left to right are: Major Andrian Nikolayev, who was blasted into space in Vostok 3 on Aug. 11th; Lieut. Col. ...

Fotokhronika TASS

"Yuri Gagarin as We Remember Him"

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A monument has been erected to the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in the Stellar Town near Moscow where Soviet Cosmonauts live and work. There are always fresh flowers at its pedestal: here come his workmates--those whom he trained for space flights...

Novosti Press Agency

Composer Alexsandr Arutyunyan

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1961-5-20

Composer Alexsandr Arutyunyan from Yerevan composed " Tale of the Armenian People", a vocal-symphonic poem. A. Arutyunyan's works are well-known not only in the Soviet Union but also abroad. His "Cantata About Motherland", concert for trumpet and ...

V. Egorov

Cosmonaut Beregovoy in the Spacecraft

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Millions of TV viewers watched the broadcast from the Soyuz-3 spacecraft on their TV screens. This shot shows the pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel Georgy Beregovoy in the cabin of the spacecraft.

Novosti Press Agency