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Yuri Gagarin Links

Some Yuri Gagarin resources online

  • Newspaper: The Guardian reporting on a Gagarin related event at the corner house in Manchester in June 2009.
  • Like Wikipedia  but better
  • Yuri Gagarin’s life in pictures (from http://www.russianarchives.com)
  • Video: John Zarnecki’s talk including his (almost) meeting with Gagarin
  • Newspaper: Personal recollecion in a local paper from 3 years ago
  • Magazine: Big piece on TIME Magazine from April 1961
  • This site claims it has public domain Gagarin pictures
  • A PDF from NASA containing translations of Russian radio and press reports of Gagarin’s flight
  • An article from the Working Class Movement Library
  • Manchester Evening News story 16th May 2009 – Film of my dad and Gagarin
  • Zarya Diaries maintained by Robert Christy from the Kettering Group. Some useful chronological information about the early Soviet space effort.
  • Recently declassified document “Secret Justice Department Report Details How the U.S. Helped Former Nazis“. Not strictly related to the Soviet space effort.
  • Richard Thorpe talking (Gresham College 2005) about Gagarin’s UK visit.
  • Pathe film clip : PM Macmillan at Russian Trade Fair
  • Pathe film clip : Gagarin’s arrival at Moscow Airport and first meeting with Khruschev. Silent but in colour – pure ceremony.
  • Pathe film clip : Moscow Press conference following Gagarin’ return
  • Pathe film clip : Gagarin arrival in London
  • Pathe film clip : Gagarin Press Conference – Earls Court
  • Pathe film clip : Gagarin in Manchester
  • Pathe film clip Gagarin prior to launch  in colour
  • Pathe film clip : Almost 15 minutes log. Lots of padding but also a good view of the inside of the Vostok
  • Pathe film clip : Gagarin Recieving Hero of the Soviet Union and Order of Lenin awards from Khrushev
  • Pathe film clip : Sydney Trade fair 1961 (Gagarin not present)
  • From Jodrel Bank Archive. Vostok 1 (7.5MB), Vostok2 (6.5MB), Astrolog (7.1MB).
  • Dailyworker – Berlin (24.1MB)
  • Dailyworker  – Gagarin (10.5MB)
  • Dailyworker 1961 – Word document (15.5MB)
  • Dailyworker 1961 – better quality pics (15.5MB)
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