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14 unusual facts about Yuri Gagarin


Alexandre Tichonov

This academy, was named after the world's first astronaut, Yuri Gagarin, who himself was reportedly a rugby enthusiast.

Ali Gagarin

He earned his nickname of Ali Gagarin when he played professional football for Al-Hilal, one Sudan’s biggest teams, his meteoric rise in the sport was likened to that of the famous Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Aspotogan Peninsula

He invited guests to stay at his home such as the first astronaut in space, Yuri Gagarin.

Blandford, Nova Scotia

Many of his guests were celebrities; one such guest was Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.

Dobryninskaya

The side ones feature images of two Parades on the Red Square, the left one of Soviet athletes and the right of the Soviet Military, which featured a portrait of Stalin being carried, and like the bas-relief in the Central Hall, this was removed in 1961 and then carefully replaced with an image of Yuri Gagarin.

Ernst Nolte

Nolte cited the flight of Yuri Gagarin in 1961 as an example of “practical transcendence”, of how humanity was pressing forward in its technological development and rapidly acquiring powers traditionally thought to be only the providence of the gods.

First Orbit

By matching the orbit of the International Space Station to that of Vostok 1 as closely as possible, in terms of ground path and time of day, documentary filmmaker Christopher Riley and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli were able to film the view that Yuri Gagarin saw on his pioneering orbital space flight.

Jakokoyak

It contains tales about an abandoned Ukrainian city (Prypiat), the first dog in space (Laika), Yuri Gagarin’s very own postcode (Moscow 705) and a private seaside in Sweden (Amine).

Matra Djet

During his 1965 tour to France, Yuri Gagarin was presented with a Matra Bonnet Djet V S coupé by the French government, the car was later photographed wearing Soviet license plates.

Namibe

The old Yuri Gagarin airport, only about 1.7 km from the city's center, connects the city to the rest of the country.

Sitora Farmonova

Nazira falls in love with the main character Iskandar, a young Kazakh ham radio operator and space fanatic calling himself Gagarin, after the Soviet cosmonaut.

The Dignity of Labour

These are loosely tied together with a story depicting the construction of the Vostok 1 spacecraft, as well as the launch of the rocket and the pioneering Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space.

Undervud

The songs "Parabellum" (Парабеллум) and "Gagarin, ya Vas lyubila" (Гагарин, я Вас любила) became known to the general public.

Valentin Bondarenko

According to Golyakhovsky, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin spent several hours at the hospital as "deathwatch officer" and Bondarenko died of shock 16 hours after the accident, less than three weeks before Gagarin's historic spaceflight.


Bohuslav Chňoupek

He covered the Slovak National Uprising, wrote about how the rule of the Communist Party in Slovakia had been established, about the flight of Yuri Gagarin, and he also wrote an essay about Andy Warhol.

John Zarnecki

In 1961, the school gave its pupils a day off to witness the first person in space, Yuri Gagarin, visiting the tomb of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery nearby.

Lyudmila Sorokina

Under her supervision the museum turned into a large museum complex that exhibits aircraft of the Russian Northern Fleet, Yuri Gagarin's house-museum, an hangar with a collection of aviation artifacts of the times of the Second World War and post-war time.

Ştefan cel Mare Central Park

In the later decades of Soviet power, the Alley of Friendship was created, where prominent guests of Chişinău planted trees; among were them Yuri Gagarin, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Meliton Kantaria.