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Gagarin (other)
Gagarin may refer to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), the first man to travel in outer space. Gagarin may also refer to: * Gagarin (surname) or Gagarina Places *Gagarin, Armenia, a town in Armenia * Gagarin, Smolensk Oblast, a town in Gagarinsky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia * Gagarin, Uzbekistan, a town in Jizzakh Province, Uzbekistan Other uses *Gagarin (crater), a far-side lunar crater, named after Yuri Gagarin *1772 Gagarin, an asteroid, named after Yuri Gagarin *'' Gagarin: First in Space'', a 2013 film *Yuri Gagarin Airport, Moçâmedes, Angola *'' Kosmonavt Yuri Gagarin'', a Soviet satellite tracking ship *Gagarin family, a Rurikid princely family * "Gagarin", a 2015 song by Public Service Broadcasting from '' The Race for Space'' * "Gagarin", a 2020 song by Moses Sumney from '' Græ'' See also * Gagarin, Russia a list of inhabited localities in Russia * Gagarin Cup, a Kontinental Hockey League trophy *''Gagarin Way'', a 2001 play by Gregory Burke * Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Gagarin's first name is sometimes transliterated as ''Yuriy'', ''Youri'', or ''Yury''. (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling in the Vostok 1 capsule, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. By achieving this major milestone in the Space Race he became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation's highest honour. Gagarin was born in the Russian village of Klushino, and in his youth was a foundryman at a steel plant in Lyubertsy. He later joined the Soviet Air Forces as a pilot and was stationed at the Luostari/Pechenga (air base), Luostari Air Base, near the Norwegian border, before his selection for the Soviet space programme with five other cosmonauts. Following his spaceflight, Gagarin became deputy training director of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Cos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagarin Family
The House of Gagarin (russian: Гага́рин) is the name of a Russian princely family descending from sovereign rulers of Starodub-on-the-Klyazma. Origins The descendant of the Great Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich, the Christianizer of Russia, Prince Ivan Vsevolodovich, received from his brother, the Great Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich, the appanage of Starodub, and this originated the Princes of Starodub. The great-great-grandson of this Prince Ivan, Prince Ivan Fedorovich, called Lapa-Golibesovskoy, had a son, Prince Mikhail, and he had three sons: Princes Vasilii, Yuri, and Ivan Gagara, whose descendants, the Princes Gagarin, served the Russian Throne as Boyars and in other distinguished positions. The history of the Russian Empire shows that many of the Princes Gagarin, both in ancient times as well as in more recent times, were granted fiefdoms for their service to the fatherland, and they were rewarded with several Orders and other tokens of the Monarch's favor. No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cité Gagarine
Cité Gagarine was a housing project in Ivry-sur-Seine, France. It was built by the Communist Party of France government starting in 1961 and inaugurated in 1963, and was a symbol of the vibrancy of communism in France at the time. It was named for the Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ... cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human who went to space. Gagarin attended the inauguration of the housing project in 1963. With the de-industrialization of France in the 1970s, the workforce that comprised the main part of the population of Cité Gagarine began to lose its employment, and voter affiliation with the Communist Party of France declined. Over the years, Cité Gagarine came to house more immigrants from outside of France. Cité Gagarine's demolition began in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagarin's Start
Gagarin's Start (russian: Гагаринский старт, ''Gagarinskiy start''), also known as Baikonur Site 1 or Site 1/5 is a launch site at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that was used for the Soviet space program and is now managed by Roscosmos. Overview The launchpad for the world's first human spaceflight made by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 in 1961, the site was referred to as Site No.1 (, ''Ploshchadka No. 1'') as the first one of its kind. It is also sometimes referred to as NIIP-5 LC1, Baikonur LC1, LC-1/5, LC-1 or GIK-5 LC1. On 17 March 1954, the Council of Ministers ordered several ministries to select a site for a proving ground to test the R-7 rocket by 1 January 1955. A special reconnaissance commission considered several possible geographic regions and selected Tyuratam in the Kazakh SSR. This selection was approved on 12 February 1955 by the Council of Ministers, with a completion of construction targeted for 1958. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagarin Way
''Gagarin Way'' is a play by Scottish playwright Gregory Burke, named after a street in the West Fife village of Lumphinnans, on the edge of Cowdenbeath. The play documents the disappearance of socialism from an area where political radicalism was once a defining characteristic of the population. ''Gagarin Way'' debuted at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ..., in July 2001, before transferring to the National Theatre and the West End in London. It was translated into 20 languages and toured the world. References Plays set in Scotland Scottish plays 2001 plays {{2000s-play-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagarin Cup
The Gagarin Cup (russian: Кубок Гагарина, Kubok Gagarina) is the trophy presented to the winner of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) playoffs, and is named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. The Cup was supposedly named after Gagarin because the last possible game of the inaugural KHL season would take place on April 12, the anniversary date of Gagarin's flight. After the end of the KHL's regular season, sixteen teams participate in the playoffs. The 1/8 and quarter-finals were a best-of-five series during the first season, and the semi-finals and finals were a best-of-seven series during the first season. Conferences were established for the second season. Conference quarter-finals are a best-of-five series while the conference semi-finals, conference finals and Gagarin Cup finals are a best-of-seven series. The winner of the final best-of-seven series receives the Gagarin Cup. It has been reported that the Cup weighs 18 kg (40 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagarin, Russia
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Gagarin (russian: Гагарин; masculine) or Gagarina (; feminine, or masculine genitive) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities *Gagarin, Smolensk Oblast, a town in Gagarinsky District of Smolensk Oblast ;Rural localities * Gagarin, Vologda Oblast, a ''pochinok'' in Terebayevsky Selsoviet of Nikolsky District in Vologda Oblast * Gagarina, Krasnoyarsk Krai, a settlement in Petropavlovsky Selsoviet of Abansky District in Krasnoyarsk Krai * Gagarina, Tyumen Oblast, a village in Berdyuzhsky Rural Okrug of Berdyuzhsky District in Tyumen Oblast Tyumen Oblast (russian: Тюме́нская о́бласть, ''Tyumenskaya oblast'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Western Siberia region of Siberia, and is administratively part of the Urals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Græ
''Græ'' is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Moses Sumney. The double album was released in two parts by Jagjaguwar. The first part was released digitally on February 21, 2020, followed by the full album, including its second part, on May 15, 2020. ''Græ'' features contributions from a wide range of musicians, writers and producers, including Daniel Lopatin, Thundercat, Jill Scott, James Blake, Taiye Selasi, John Congleton, Rob Moose, Ezra Miller, Michael Chabon, Matthew Otto, Ian Chang, and FKJ. The album was preceded by five singles: "Virile", "Polly", " Me in 20 Years", "Cut Me", and "Bless Me". Background and recording Some of the songs on ''Græ'', including "Virile", were recorded by Sumney with drummer Ian Chang of Son Lux and producer/engineer Ben Baptie at Echo Mountain Recording in Asheville, North Carolina. Sumney first lived in Asheville before and during the making of ''Aromanticism'', and ''Græ'' is Sumney's first album since officially re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Race For Space (album)
''The Race for Space'' is the second studio album by British alternative group Public Service Broadcasting, released on 23 February 2015. Working with sound samples from the British Film Institute, the album relives the story of the American and Soviet space race from 1957–1972. The opening track features the speech by John F. Kennedy on 12 September 1962 at Rice University. To launch the album, the band played two concerts on 26 and 27 February 2015 at the National Space Centre in Leicester and went on to complete a 14-date tour of the UK and Ireland to support the album. The band have expressed concern in the past about playing the whole album cover to cover live, due to the subject matter of track 4 ("Fire in the Cockpit") but did so for the first time at Manchester Science Festival in October 2016. The album reached number 11 in the UK chart and number 1 in the UK Indie Albums Chart the week following its release. The vinyl edition was the 5th highest selling record of 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosmonavt Yuri Gagarin
''Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin'' (russian: «Космона́вт Ю́рий Гага́рин») was a Soviet space control-monitoring ship or Vigilship (Veladora) that was devoted to detecting and receiving satellite communications. Named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the ship was completed in December 1971 to support the Soviet space program. The ship also conducted upper atmosphere and outer space research.Norman Polmar, Siegfried Breyer, ''Guide to the Soviet Navy'', Third Edition (1984), United States Naval Institute, Annapolis Maryland, It had very distinguishable looks due to two extremely large and two smaller parabolic "dish" antennas placed on top of the hull. In 1986, ''Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin'' was the world's largest communications ship and was the flagship of a fleet of communications ships. These ships greatly extended the tracking range when the orbits of cosmonauts and unmanned missions were not over the USSR.''Tracking sites and ships''Komsmonavtka Website Retrieve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagarin (surname)
Gagarin (russian: Гагарин), or Gagarina (feminine; Гагарина), is a Russian surname derived from the word ''gagara'', meaning loon (a waterbird, genus '' Gavia''). Notable people with the surname include: *Gagarin family, a Rurikid princely family *Anna Gagarina, maiden name of Anna Lopukhina (1777–1805), mistress of Emperor Paul of Russia *Ivan Gagarin (1814-1882), Russian Jesuit theologian *Nikolai Gagarin (1784–1842), Russian soldier and politician * Grigory Gagarin (1810–1893), Russian painter, major general and administrator * Polina Gagarina (born 1987), Russian singer, songwriter, actress, and model *Andrey Gagarin (1934–2011), Russian prince and scientist *Yekaterina Gagarina Yekaterina Petrovna Gagarina (russian: Екатерина Петровна Гагарина; May 25, 1790—February 27, 1873), maiden name Soymonova (), was a wife of a Russian diplomat Grigory Gagarin, Prince Grigory Gagarin and th ... (1790–1873), wife of Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Gagarin Airport
Welwitschia Mirabilis International Airport ( pt, Aeroporto Internacional Welwitschia Mirabilis) is an airport serving the Atlantic port city of Moçâmedes, the capital of Namibe Province in Angola. The runway is south of the city. Airlines and destinations See also * List of airports in Angola * Transport in Angola * Yuri Gagarin References External linksOurAirports - Namibe* * Welwitschia Mirabilis ''Welwitschia'' is a monotypic gymnosperm genus, comprising solely the distinctive ''Welwitschia mirabilis'', endemic to the Namib desert within Namibia and Angola. ''Welwitschia'' is the only living genus of the family Welwitschiaceae and ord ... Namibe Province {{Angola-airport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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