First Day Cover
首日封
Sobrescrito de 1.º Dia
Russia50th Anniversary of the First Human Spaceflight
Date of Issue : 12 April 2011
The stamp depicts a portrait of Y.A. Gagarin and the spaceship "Vostok" blasting off is represented on the fields of the souvenir sheet.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.
Gagarin died when a training jet he was piloting crashed in 1968.
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