"Russia's Four Spacemen Together"
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
Doctor Tests blood Pressure and Heart Pulsation of Yuri Gagarin
"I feel excellent", says Yuri Gagarin, world's first space traveller, when the doctor tests him for blood pressure and heart pulsation.
A little more than a month ago on April 12, 1961 the first pilot-cosmonaut, here of Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin ...
G. Russkikh
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
Souvenir Breast Plate by Leningrad Mint
Photo No. 482901
May 1961
Moscow.
Souvenir breast plate on the outstanding achievements of the Sov.people — YURI GAGARIN'S SPACE FLIGHT, which has been made by the Leningrad mint bears figure of man on background of space ship "VOSTOK". The man i...
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The Souvenir Medal on the First Man Made Space Flight
The souvenir medal on the first man made space flight which is being made by the Dulevo Porcelain Factory on its right side bears a relief portrait of the Hero-Cosmonaut with inscription "Yuri Gagarin".
On its left side, it has the Hammer and Sick...
Daily Mirror
"Yuri Gagarin as We Remember Him"
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
Yuri Gagarin at an Exhibition of Designs
The first Soviet cosmonaut, Major Yuri Gagarin (left), at an exhibition of designs put forward for a monument to be erected in honour of the Soviet space victory.
Fotokhronika TASS