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Yury Svyatoslavich or Georgy Svyatoslavovich ( Russian: Юрий Святославович or Георгий Святославович) was the last sovereign ruler of the Principality of Smolensk and Bryansk (1386–95, 1401–04) whose life was spent in vain attempts to fend off aggression by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . In 1386 a war ...
- 14th century
- Sviatoslav IV of Smolensk
- 14 September 1407, Golden Horde
- Rurikids
Aug 19, 2015 · Share. On 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (USSR, now Russia) became the first human to orbit the Earth. When Vostok 1 (“Orient 1”) unceremoniously ejected the national hero back to Earth 108 minutes after it launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Gagarin – promoted from Lieutenant to Major during the flight – emerged ...
Yury Svyatoslavich or Georgy Svyatoslavovich was the last sovereign ruler of the Principality of Smolensk and Bryansk whose life was spent in vain attempts to fend off aggression by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Mar 8, 2019 · By RFE/RL. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, on April 12, 1961. Born on March 9, 1934, as a young man he experienced a meteoric rise from tradesman and tractor specialist to ...
- Prepares For Aviation Career
- Pioneers Human Space Flight
- Laika: First Animal in Space
- Hailed as A Hero
- Dies in Training Crash
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Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934, the third of four children of Aleksey Ivanovich and Anna Gagarin. The family lived on a collective farm in Klushino, Russia, where his father was a carpenter and his mother was a dairy-maid. Gagarin grew up helping them with their work. Lacking extensive formal education themselves, his parents en...
By the time Gagarin entered the cosmonaut program, the Soviets had been preparing for the first manned space flight for a year. In May 1960 they launched a series of Vostoktest rockets. ("Vostok" is the Russian word for east.) Although the first two rockets failed, the third launched two dogs into space
In 1961 Yuri Gagarin made history as the first human to travel in space. The distinction of being the first living creature to orbit in space, however, is held by a Russian dog named Laika (Barker). A perky three-year-old mixed breed with pointy ears, Laika was launched from Earth on November 3, 1957, aboard Sputnik 2.Wearing a special harness, she...
Although ejecting from a spacecraft was standard procedure for Vostok pilots, Soviet officials reported that Gagarin had remained aboard all the way to the ground. This was required for international certification of the Vostokflight as a record. Gagarin never revealed the truth, and for many decades the Soviets concealed the actual facts of the la...
Gagarin always wanted to venture back into space. In 1966 he was returned to active status to serve as back-up cos monaut for Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967) in the first flight of the new Soyuz spacecraft. Soyuz 1 was launched on April 23, 1967, but Komarov died as the result of a parachute mal function on reentry. Gagarin was then assigned to comman...
Books
Gagarin, Yuri. Road to the Stars.Translated by G. Hanna and D. Myshne. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1962. Gagarin, Yuri, and Vladimir Lebedev. Psychology and Space.Translated by Boris Belitsky. Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1970. Gagarin, Yuri, and Vladimir Lebedev. Survival in Space. Translated by Gabriella Azrael. New York: Bantam Books, 1969. Oberg, James E. Red Star in Orbit. New York: Random House, 1981.
Periodicals
Oberg, James E. Aviation Week and Space Technology(April 8, 1991): p. 7.
Web Sites
Memorial to Laika.http://www.novareinna.com/bridge/laika.html(accessed on June 30, 2004). "Yuri Gagarin." Guardian Unlimited.http://www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,6729,470879,00.html(accessed on June 29, 2004). "Yuri Gagarin." Starchild.http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level1/gagarin.html(accessed on June 29, 2004). The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center.http://howe.iki.rssi.ru/GCTC/gctc_e.htm (accessed on June 29, 2004).
Distributed by. Kino Swiat. Release date. 5 September 2016. ( 2016-09-05) (Poland) Running time. 120 min. Smolensk ( Polish: Smoleńsk) is a Polish drama thriller film directed by director Antoni Krauze released in September 2016.
Sep 9, 2016 · Smolensk: Directed by Antoni Krauze. With Beata Fido, Maciej Póltorak, Aldona Struzik, Lech Lotocki. An inspired story of people affected by the 2010 crash of Polish Air Force Flight 101 in Smolensk, Russia.
