Yuri Gagarin

On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1 completed one orbit of Earth. He was the first person to travel into Space in a flight which took 108 minutes. Yuri Gagarin was a pilot with the  Soviet Air Forces. He was born on  9 March 1934 in the village of Klushino, in the Western Oblast, near Gzhatsk (renamed 

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