In the capital, there are a number of monuments dedicated to the cosmonauts and scientists, whose work paved the way for ...

Russian citizen laying flowers at the statue of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in BA. photo courtesy of BA Arsenii Matiushchenko, acting director of Russian Cultural Centres in Egypt, led the ...

"On April 12, we celebrate space exploration, we call it 'Cosmonautics Day'. It was on this day in 1961, Yuri Gagarin took first human flight to space. It is of course an occasion to remember ...

Egypt paid tribute to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to ... A Russian delegation laid flowers at a statue of Gagarin at the Egyptian Space Agency in Cairo, part of a programme ...

Some of the photographs show Gagarin training for his space flight while others show the celebrations in Moscow after his triumphant return. "On April 12, 1961 64 years ago Soviet cosmonaut Yuri ...

The Baikonur rocket and missile site in the middle of Kazakhstan is an area of some 90 kms in diameter which is leased to ...

But Yuri’s death is still felt keenly.” We are driving through the Smol­­ensk region, several hours west of Moscow, on our way to Gagarin City for a symposium at which Leonov will speak.

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ... from Vostok through a hatch. Luckily, Gagarin’s parachute opened and he landed around 590 miles southeast of Moscow in Engels, Saratov region. Without Vostok, the ...