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Famous People of Russia . Gagarin.

Everybody remembers the most outstanding scientists of our country Konstantin Tsialkovsky, Sergey Korolev who studied the universe and gave the world the first flight round the Earth. We all know Yury Gagarin, the first space pilot and a real hero.

     He was born in a village near Smolensk. Yury spent his childhood in a big family. He had a sister and two brothers. In 1951 Gagarin finished a vocation school and after that a school of aviation. Then he studied at Airforce Academy in Moscow.

  Yury Gagarin made the first space flight on board the spaceship “Vostok” on the 12-th of April, 1961. He made a tour around the Earth that lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes. So, he was the first man on Earth to fly into space.