Cosmonauts Conference
Picture by Radio • London Bureau
Moscow USSR: A Soviet Radio correspondent is seen talking to cosmonauts P. Belyaev (left) A. Leonov (centre) on their arrival at the cosmodrome after the historic flight in the Vokshod-2, in which and out of which ...
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Cosmonauts Titov and Popovich Playing Basketball
Major Gherman Titov (right) and Lieut. Col. Pavel Popovich, one of the fantastic space twins, playing basketball in Moscow to keep fit for further space journeys. Maybe they're watching that the ball itself doesn't go into orbit! — Keystone
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"Hero's Welcome For Russian Spaceman"
"Hero's Welcome for Russian Spacemen"
Russian cosmonauts Nikolaev and Popovich carry flowers as they walk with Mr. Khruschev on arrival at Moscow airport to receive a hero's welcome. With Mr. Khruschev is one of the cosmonaut's children. In backgr...
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"Griffin" Ridden by Jockey Ivan Abdeyev
It's heaving flanks covered with a fine layer of snow, a stallion gallops through the white fields of outer Moscow in training for England's biggest race, the "Grand National". This horse —"Griffin"— is one of three steeplechasers with which the R...
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Russian Racehorse Garnyr Winning a Race in Moscow
"Russia's Finest"
The Russian racehorse Garnyr —which means Garnish— which finished sixth in the American Laurel Park International race on November 11th, 1958, is seen in this picture on the right winning a race in Moscow.
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Yuri Gagarin at the 'May Day' Parade
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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Major Yuri Gagarin Getting a Kiss from Gina Lollobrigida
Major Yuri Gagarin, the world's first spaceman getting a kiss from Gina Lollobrigida, the Italian film star, at a reception held recently for the participants in the film festival in Moscow. (Fotokhronica TASS)
Fotokhronika TASS
Two Spaceman Return to Earth
"Moscow Goes Mad
Two Spacemen Return to Earth"
The two Russian spacemen climbed safely out of their spaceships on Russian soil this morning, completing the most daring journey in all history. Their spaceships landed "precisely in the landing area....
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