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Hundreds of millions of people all over the planet had seen Gagarin smiling joyfully in person or on television. He was theirs, familiar to everyone, and at the same time a “Citizen of the Universe.”

Yuri Gagarin

Gagarin’s plaque in the Kremlin Wall.

50th Anniversary stamp for Vostok 1