Yuri Gagarin on covers of the Soviet Photo magazine, 1961 and 1971
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Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov painting. Photo by V. Bazanov (1960s).
“Peaceful People” by Mikhail Borisov (1983)
Cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev. Photo by S. Baranov (1960s).
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin two days after landing (April 14, 1961)
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and rocket engineer Sergey Korolyov in Sochi (1961). Autograph on the photo by the photographer, Igor Snegiryov.
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov with a volleyball. Photo by Oleg Neyelov (1960s).
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko, pilot of Soyuz-26. Photo by Albert Pushkaryov (March 1978).
Gherman Titov - the second Soviet cosmonaut - started his space flight at 6 am on August 6 and landed at 7.18 am, August 7 (1961).
Nikita Khrushchev, Gherman Titov, Yuri Gagarin, Mikhail Suslov and Leonid Brezhnev after Titov’s flight on August 9, 1961. Photo by Viktor Akhlomov (Vnukovo airport, Moscow).
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin playing billiards. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Kuibyshev, April 13, 1961).
Yuri Gagarin greeting workers of the Stankolit factory. Photo by Robert Diament (Moscow, 1961).
Yuri Gagarin with wife and daughter. Photo by Dmitry Baltermants (1961).
Yuri Gagarin in Japan (1962)
Welcoming ceremony for Yuri Gagarin in Moscow. Photo by Valentin Mastyukov (1961).