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Daily LIFT #1657
Vostok 5 & Vostok 6 stamp, People's Republic of Bulgaria 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1657 On June 14, 1963, the USSR launched Vostok 5 with...

The Left Chapter
19 hours ago1 min read
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Daily LIFT #1561
Valentina Tereshkova and Fidel Castro, Havana, 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1561
Michael Laxer
Apr 31 min read
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Daily LIFT #1429
Remarkable photo of early Soviet cosmonauts Pavel Popovich, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Valeri Bykovsky, Andrian Nikolayev and...
Michael Laxer
Aug 24, 20241 min read
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Valentina Tereshkova stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #35
Valentina Tereshkova stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #35 On June 16, 1963 Vostok VI, piloted by Soviet Valentina Tereshkova, the world's first...
Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20231 min read
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Daily LIFT #734
Nikita Khrushchev with Valentina Tereshkova, Yuri Gagarin and other Soviet cosmonauts in Moscow's Red Square on June 22, 1963 -- Daily...
Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20221 min read
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Daily LIFT #647
Civil rights activist and US Communist Angela Davis with the first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova and German Democratic Republic...
Michael Laxer
Feb 13, 20221 min read
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Soviet 1963: Memorable events
As we have noted before, the 1960s was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 22, 20229 min read
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Yuri Gagarin's letter to a young Canadian
Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova (the first woman in space) sign autographs and chat with young people at a youth forum, 1964 As we all...
Michael Laxer
Sep 25, 20214 min read
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Daily LIFT #517
Angela Davis with Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, during a visit to the USSR, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #517
Michael Laxer
Aug 19, 20211 min read
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