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Biography
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human travel into outer space: his capsule, Vostok 1, completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.
Awards & recognition
- International Space Hall of Fame · 1976
- Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" · 1968
- Medal "For Impeccable Service", 3rd class · 1966
- Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" · 1965
- Order of Karl Marx · 1963
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- Hero of Labour · 1962
- Order of the Nile · 1962
- Order of the Star of Africa · 1962
- Gold Star medal · 1961
- Hero of Socialist Labour of Bulgaria · 1961
- Hero of Socialist Labour of Czechoslovakia · 1961
- Hero of the Soviet Union · 1961
- Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands" · 1961
- Order of Georgi Dimitrov · 1961
- Order of Lenin · 1961
- Order of Playa Girón · 1961
- Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 1st class · 1961
- Order of the Flag of the People's Republic of Hungary · 1961
- Order of the Southern Cross · 1961
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR · 1961
- Star of the Republic of Indonesia · 1961
- Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" · 1958
- aircraft pilot qualification (class)
- honorary citizen of Sevastopol
- Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR
- Order of Aeronautical Merit
- Order of Klement Gottwald
- Order of the Cross of Grunwald
- Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
