65 years since Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth

By Russian Embassy, Abuja On April 12, we celebrate the 65th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. On this day in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in history to orbit the Earth. Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934, in the Smolensk region of Russia. He was a military pilot

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