Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at a press conference in Finland several months after his space flight in 1961.

Adapted from a photograph by Arto Jousi, July 3, 1961, Suomen valokuvataiteen museo (Finnish Museum of Photography), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yuri_Gagarin_(1961)_-_Restoration.jpg.

Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich 1934 - 1968

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at a press conference in Finland several months after his space flight in 1961.

Adapted from a photograph by Arto Jousi, July 3, 1961, Suomen valokuvataiteen museo (Finnish Museum of Photography), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yuri_Gagarin_(1961)_-_Restoration.jpg.

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