N. S. Khrushchov, Yuri Gagarin and His Wife Valentina
The flower-bedecked car drives Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers N. S. Khrushchov, space pilot Yuri Gagarin and his wife Valentina through the streets of Moscow towards the Red Square.
Photo by V. Bliokh
V. Bliokh
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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Pilot-Cosmonaut Major Titov Speaking by Telephone
August, 1961. Moscow. : Pilot-Cosmonaut Major G. S. Titov Speaking by Telephone with N. S. Khrushchov soon after the successful completion of his cosmic flight.
Photo by TASS Special correspondent
V. Savostyanov
V. Savostyanov
Soviet Cosmonauts and Wives in Triumphant Procession
Moscow, USSR: Cosmonauts Pavel I. Belyaev (left) and Alexei Leonov, who last week shot to fame and history-making in their spacecraft Vokshod II, wave bouqets of flowers from their flower-strewn car as they are driven in triumph on the way to Red ...
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Titov In Training Before Take-off
Moscow: Major Gherman Stepanovich Titov, the second Soviet cosmonaut who landed safely today after orbitting the earth 17 times, is pictured here being trained on a centrifuge device before take-off.
Moscow Radio said Titov landed in "Vostok II" a...
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Col. Pavel Beley and Col. Aleksel Leonov
"Crew of Vokshod-II"
Moscow, USSR: Russia has launched two cosmonauts in a Vokshod-II space ship today. Pictured in Red Square prior to their flight recently are the crew: Col.Pavel Belyaev (left) commander of the Vokshod-II and second pilot Lt. C...
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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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