Yuri gagarin life biography of deodato
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Yuri gagarin life biography of deodato
Yuri Gagarin Biography |
| Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (&#;&#;&#;&#;&#; &#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#; &#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#) (YOO-ree gah-GAH-reen) (March 9, - March 27, ), was a Soviet cosmonaut who in became the first man to travel into space. Gagarin was born near Gzhatsk, and his parents worked on a collective farm. While manual labourers and described in official reports as "peasants", this is somewhat of an exaggeration; his mother was reportedly a voracious reader, and his father a skilled carpenter who did not advertise his abilities to avoid the wrath of Stalin's purges against the "kulaks". The third of four children, his elder sister helped to raise him while his parents worked. Like millions of Russians, the Gagarin family suffered great hardship in World War II. His two elder siblings were taken away to Germany in , and did not return until after the war. Gagarin himself was described as an intelligent, hard-working, if occasionally mischievous b |