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Today marks the 92th birthday anniversary of Yury Gagarin, the Earth’s first space pilot. His flight aboard the Vostok spaceship went down in history as the humankind’s greatest breakthrough in science and technology and showed the entire world ...
...the intellectual and scientific might of our country and Soviet specialists’ audacity and top professionalism. Yury Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino, Gzhatsk District, the Smolensk Region, on March 9 1934. It was here that in 1941, in the midst of the Great Patriotic War, young Yury first saw Soviet airplanes on sorties to defend the homeland and began dreaming about flying. In 1954, while in industrial college, Gagarin enrolled in the Saratov flying club and made the final deci...