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Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut who was the first human to travel into space (April 12th, 1961), and the first to orbit the Earth. He later served as Deputy to the Supreme Soviet and was Deputy director of the Soviet Cosmonaut Training Center.

Biographical fast facts

Full or original name at birth: Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin

Date, time and place of birth: March 9, 1934, at 6:30 a.m., Klushino, near Gzhatsk, Smolensk, Russia (now Gagarin, Russia)

Date, time, place and cause of death: March 27, 1968, at 10:31 a.m., near Kirzhach, east of Moscow, Russia (Plane crash)

Marriage
Wife: Valentina (m. 1957 - March 27, 1968) (his death)

Children
Daughters: Yelena (a.k.a. Lena or Lenochka) (b. 1958)
Galina (a.k.a. Galya, Galochka, Galinka or Galchonok) (b. 1961)

Parents
Father: Alexei Ivanovich (a carpenter)
Mother: Anna Timofeyevna (d. 1984)

Remains: He was cremated and his ashes were interred in the Kremlin Wall, Red Square, Moscow, Russia

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