On that cold, but bright, April day we were guests of your government in the reviewing stand of Red Square to witness the poeple's celebration for Yuri Gagarin and later on that day we attended the somewhat more exclusive reception for him in one of the impressive palaces of the Kremlin.

* 1961 – The Russian ( Soviet ) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 ( Vostok 1 ).

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.

The rock band from Pasadena, Ozma plays a balalaika on the song " Flight Of Yuri Gagarin "; it is derived from their partially Russian themed album Double Donkey Disc.

The first human spaceflight in history was accomplished on a derivative of R-7, Vostok, on 12 April 1961, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

* 1985 – Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin ( live 1973 )

It succeeded in the first but not the second: in the first Mercury mission on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space ; however the Soviet Union had put Yuri Gagarin into space one month earlier.

In the first Mercury mission on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space and the second person following Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union who flew one month earlier.

* 1968 – Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut ( b. 1934 )

First human to travel into space, Yuri Gagarin

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth aboard Vostok 1 manned spacecraft on 12 April 1961.

The Soviet space program achieved many of the first milestones, including the first living being in orbit in 1957, the first human spaceflight ( Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 ) in 1961, the first spacewalk ( by Aleksei Leonov ) in 1965, the first automatic landing on another celestial body in 1966, and the launch of the first space station ( Salyut 1 ) in 1971.

The flight took Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union, into space.

27-year-old Yuri Gagarin was the only crew member of Vostok 1.

Electrocardiogram of Yuri Gagarin | Gagarin recorded April 11, 1961, at 19 hours and 35 minutes.

Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1

In front of this is a 3 meter tall, white stone statue of Yuri Gagarin, wearing a spacesuit, with one arm raised in greeting and the other holding a space helmet.

Ryder has one full sibling, a younger brother, Uri ( named in honor of the first Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin ), and two half siblings from her mother's prior marriage: an older half-brother, Jubal Palmer ; and an older half-sister, Sunyata Palmer.

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968 ) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut.

Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk ( renamed Gagarin in 1968 after his death ), ( now in Smolensk Oblast, Russia ), on 9 March 1934.

In 1960, after much searching and a selection process, Yuri Gagarin was chosen with 19 other pilots for the Soviet space program.

A postcard with an image of Yuri Gagarin

On 1 August 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin left the Fallen Astronaut on the surface of the Moon as a memorial to all the American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts that died in the Space Race, with Yuri Gagarin listed among 14 others.

During Yuri Andropov's tenure as General Secretary ( 1982 – 1984 ), Gorbachev became one of the Politburo's most visible and active members.

He was David Soslan, an Alan prince, to whom the 18th-century Georgian scholar Prince Vakhushti ascribes descent from the early 11th-century Georgian king George I. David, a capable military commander, became Tamar's major supporter and was instrumental in defeating the rebellious nobles rallied behind Yuri.

Meanwhile Komarov and his fellow cosmonauts had their groups and assignments constantly revised and they became increasingly anxious about the lack of response to their concerns about the design and manufacture of space craft which had been raised in a letter to Leonid Brezhnev by Yuri Gagarin on their behalf.

The first person to fly in space, Yuri Gagarin, became also the first to complete an orbital spaceflight on spaceship Vostok 1, in 1961.

During the course of his studies, he came into contact with Yuri Gagarin's training and became interested in space medicine.

The commander is Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko ( Russia ), and flight engineer Edward Tsang Lu ( USA ), and after docking with the ISS they exchanged with the resident crew on ISS and became the seventh station crew, called " ISS Expedition Seven ".

* Yuri Gagarin ( March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968 ) – Soviet astronaut who on April 12, 1961 became the first man in space and the first human to orbit Earth.

However, when it became clear that the secretaryship would not go to Chernenko, but instead Yuri Andropov, Shevardnadze swiftly reiterated his position and gave his support for Andropov.

In 2004, Thirsk trained at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre near Moscow and became certified as a Flight Engineer for the Soyuz spacecraft.

Upon the deaths of Leonid Brezhnev ( 1982 ), Yuri Andropov ( 1984 ) and Konstantin Chernenko ( 1985 ), Kuznetzov became acting chairman of the Presidiumthe Soviet Union's acting head of state.

He was the younger half-brother of Yuri, who became Goguryeo's second king, and younger brother of Biryu, described in some records as the founder of Baekje.

When Yuri, born from Dongmyeong's previous wife in Dongbuyeo, came to Goguryeo and became the heir to the throne, Biryu and Onjo moved south to found their own kingdoms.

According to Edwin Bacon and Mark Sandle, authors of Brezhnev Reconsidered, the economy under Brezhnev was as dynamic as the economy presided over by Nikita Khrushchev, but this dynamism had stalled by the time Yuri Andropov, and subsequently Konstantin Chernenko, became General Secretary.

In December 2007, he became Yuri Syomin's assistant at Dynamo Kyiv.

In May 1967, Yuri Andropov became the KGB Chairman.

Previously, only former players or Dynamo football academy graduates became managers, but in December 2007 Russian coach Yuri Semin was invited to become the new manager of Dynamo Kyiv.

During the winter of 1227, Yuri Vsevolodovich, and his nephews ( prince Vasilko Konstantinovich of Rostov and prince Vsevolod Konstantinovich of Pereyaslavl ) came to help Mikhail against Oleg Svyatoslavich ; in addition to them, Metropolitan Kirill I of Kiev also helped to reconcile Mikhail with Oleg who evidently became the prince of Novgorod Seversk.

In 2008 Yuri Kawasaki became the first female Shinto priest ever to serve at Nikkō Tōshō-gū.

Mikhail Gorbachev became the party's general secretary in 1985 following an interregnum after Brezhnev's death in 1982 when the party was led first by Yuri Andropov and then by Konstantin Chernenko.

Yuri Andropov became the new chief of the KGB.