Article abstract: Gagarin ushered the world into the space age as the first human in space with his orbital mission Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961.
Early Life
Yuri Gagarin was born to Aleksey Ivanovich Gagarin, a carpenter on a collective farm, and Anna Timofeyevna Gagarin, a dairymaid, on March 9, 1934, in the village of Klushino. This tiny village is west of Moscow, near the town of Gzhatsk (now known as Gagarin) in the Smolensk region of the Soviet Union. Gzhatsk is typically considered Gagarin’s hometown.
Gagarin began his formal education at...
Source: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century, ©1999 Salem Press, Inc.. All Rights Reserved.
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