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Yuri Gagarin

1934 - 1968

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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first person to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961, with his flight taking 108 minutes. By achieving this major milestone for the Soviet Union amidst the Space Race, he became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including his country's highest distinction: Hero of the Soviet Union. Hailing from the village of Klushino in the Russian SFSR, Gagarin was a foundryman at a steel plant in Lyubertsy in his youth. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Gagarin is the most popular astronaut, the 11th most popular biography from Russia (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Astronaut.

Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel into space.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Yuri Gagarin ranks 1 out of 556. After him are Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Michael Collins, Valentina Tereshkova, Gene Cernan, Pete Conrad, John Young, William Anders, Buzz Aldrin, Ed White, and Vladimir Komarov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Yuri Gagarin ranks 1. After him are Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Pratibha Patil, Charles Manson, Leonard Cohen, David J. Thouless, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Albert II of Belgium, Gene Cernan, Maggie Smith, and Richard Chamberlain. Among people deceased in 1968, Yuri Gagarin ranks 2. Before him is Martin Luther King Jr.. After him are Helen Keller, Lise Meitner, Padre Pio, Marcel Duchamp, John Steinbeck, Otto Hahn, Lev Landau, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Max Brod, and Henry Hallett Dale.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Gagarin ranks 11 out of 3,761. Before him are Leo Tolstoy (1828), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), and Igor Stravinsky (1882). After him are Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Peter the Great (1672), Anton Chekhov (1860), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Grigori Rasputin (1869), and Ivan the Terrible (1530).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Russia

Among astronauts born in Russia, Yuri Gagarin ranks 1. After him are Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Vladimir Komarov (1927), Alexei Leonov (1934), Gherman Titov (1935), Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Valery Bykovsky (1934), Valeri Polyakov (1942), Sergei Krikalev (1958), Valeri Kubasov (1935), and Vladislav Volkov (1935).

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