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Almost 40 years after his tragic death Russia is eager to know the truth. "The plane crash which killed our national hero, the planet's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, and his instructor still ...
In 1324, Yuri granted city rights to Volodymyr and Sanok in 1339, both under Magdeburg Law. He was poisoned in 1340 by Orthodox Ruthenian boyars and died without an heir, before his father who continued rule the Duchy of Mazovia .
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September 2010. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. It is a question that has lingered for more than 40 years: How did the first man in space really die? Experts have struggled to explain ...
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After three years of touring the world, Gagarin returned to his job. To improve his flying skills, he enrolled in the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy’s flight training program. He was keen to visit space again. “We can’t turn Gagarin into a museum exhibition – that would kill him,” wrote his boss and friend Nikolai Kamanin, the head of cosm...
March 27, 1968, was a cloudy day. Gagarin was performing a training flight in a MIG-15UTI fighter jet, alongside his mentor Vladimir Seryogin, an experienced pilot who had been awarded a Hero of the Soviet Union medal during WWII. Colonel Seryogin was checking Gagarin’s flying technique before letting him loose on the new MIG-17 jet. At 10:19 am Ga...
It wasn’t until 2011 that the results of the investigation were officially revealed. On the 50th anniversary of Gagarin’s space flightthe Russian authorities declassified the findings. “The most likely reason for the catastrophe was a radical maneuver to avoid crashing into a weather balloon. That led the jet into a critical flight regime and furth...
1) Seryogin suddenly lost conscience “I believe the version that suggests Seryogin had a heart attack. Perhaps he just fell on one of the control levers, which led to fatal consequences,” said Vitaly Zholobov, a Soviet astronaut. 2) Depressurization killed the pilots Igor Kuznetsov, a pilot involved in the investigation of Gagarin’s death, believes...
Stock Soviet icons such as Lenin or the improbably productive Stakhanovite workers that his successors dreamt up are old hat in today's Russia.
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The Galicia–Volhynia Wars were several wars fought in the years 1340–1392 over the succession in the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, also known as Ruthenia. After Yuri II Boleslav was poisoned by local Ruthenian nobles in 1340, both the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland advanced claims over the kingdom.
Jun 18, 2013 · He died just shy of his Vostok 1 mission's seventh anniversary, on March 27, 1968, when the MiG-15 fighter jet that he and instructor Vladimir Seryogin were piloting on a routine training flight went down outside a small town near Moscow. [ Photo Gallery: First Man in Space — Yuri Gagarin in Pictures]
