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  1. 15 hours ago · Yuri Gagarin. On April 12, 1961, the USSR opened the era of crewed spaceflight, with the flight of the first cosmonaut (Russian name for space travelers), Yuri Gagarin. Gagarin's flight, part of the Soviet Vostok space exploration program, took 108 minutes and consisted of a single orbit of the Earth. [citation needed]

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    15 hours ago · Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth, aboard the Vostok 1 crewed spacecraft on 12 April 1961. Period of developed socialism or Era of Stagnation. Following the ousting of Khrushchev in 1964, another period of collective rule ensued, until Leonid Brezhnev became the leader.

  4. May 31, 2024 · Or there is Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), the first cosmonaut: “The fact that a human being has flown to the cosmos was a bitter blow to the church.” An editorial in Izvestia wrote about Gagarin who had “given a terrible headache to believers on account of not running into anyone (god or angels) during his orbit” which is reflecting a ...

  5. 15 hours ago · The following is a list of heads of the federal subjects of the Russian Federation. The Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, along with the Donetsk People's Republic, Kherson Oblast, the Lugansk People's Republic and Zaporozhye Oblast were annexed by Russia between 2014 and 2022 and, according to its constitution, are Federal subjects.

  6. 15 hours ago · t. e. Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia, its émigrés, and to Russian-language literature. [1] The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Early Middle Ages when Old Church Slavonic was introduced as a liturgical language and became used as a literary language. By the Age of Enlightenment, literature had grown in ...

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