Michael Laxer
Daily LIFT #1467
Yuri Gagarin, mosaic portrait, Nadia Khodasevich Léger, France -- Daily LIFT #1467 Marvelous portrait of the Soviet cosmonaut icon. Nadia...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 241 min
Daily LIFT #1429
Remarkable photo of early Soviet cosmonauts Pavel Popovich, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Valeri Bykovsky, Andrian Nikolayev and...
Michael Laxer
Mar 21, 20231 min
Daily LIFT #906
Mass rally in Red Square in celebration of Yuri Gagarin's historic first flight into space, Moscow, USSR 1961 -- Daily LIFT #906
Michael Laxer
Feb 4, 20231 min
Daily LIFT #876
Yuri Gagarin Portrait, Pyotr Tarasovich Maltsev, USSR -- Daily LIFT #876
Michael Laxer
Sep 1, 20221 min
Daily LIFT #786
Comrades Fidel Castro and Yuri Gagarin in Havana, July 1961 -- Daily LIFT #786
Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20221 min
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 14, 20221 min
Daily LIFT #733
Che greets Yuri Gagarin as he arrives in Cuba after his historic flight, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #733
Michael Laxer
Apr 12, 20221 min
Daily LIFT #689
Yuri Gagarin and Fidel Castro meet, Havana 1961 -- Daily LIFT #689
Michael Laxer
Apr 12, 20222 min
First Flight: Gagarin goes into space April 12, 1961
Soviet photos, statements and accounts of the historic launch and the days that followed. On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first...
Michael Laxer
Apr 11, 20221 min
Daily LIFT #688
Yuri Gagarin suited up as captain of the "Cosmonaut" amateur hockey team, USSR 1963 --Daily LIFT #688 Tomorrow, April 12, is the 61st...
Michael Laxer
Mar 10, 20226 min
Che Guevara: 32 images from 1940-1967
Over the course of February we shared daily photos of Che Guevara, iconic revolutionary leader and hero. These came from a Soviet archive...
Michael Laxer
Mar 10, 20221 min
Daily LIFT #668
Comrades Yuri Gagarin and Nikita Khrushchev embrace in Moscow days after Gagarin's historic flight into space -- Daily LIFT #668 Gagarin...
Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20225 min
Yuri Gagarin in his own words
. Yuri Gagarin, his wife Valentina Ivanovna and Nikita Khrushchev during a parade after his triumphant flight. In honour of the birth...
Michael Laxer
Nov 5, 20211 min
Daily LIFT #571
Castro and Brezhnev meet with future cosmonauts at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #571
Michael Laxer
Nov 4, 20211 min
Daily LIFT #570
A very young Yuri Gagarin at Lyubertsy trade school, USSR, learning foundry work, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #570 From the Soviet press, 1961:...
Michael Laxer
Sep 25, 20211 min
Daily LIFT #544
Yuri Gagarin enjoying a game of pool -- Daily Lift #544
Michael Laxer
Sep 25, 20214 min
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
Aug 16, 202118 min
Artek: The vast Soviet internationalist complex of children's camps
An in-depth look at the Soviet Artek Pioneer youth camp, a sprawling internationalist complex of ten sub-camps and various facilities...
Michael Laxer
Apr 12, 20211 min
Daily LIFT #432
Yuri Gagarin with his daughters Galya and Lena, 1964 -- Daily LIFT #432 Today marked the 60th anniversary of Gagarin's historic,...
Michael Laxer
Apr 12, 20212 min
The Soviet Space Program: A Review
A look at the Soviet space program from the Soviet point-of-view on the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic flight. Soviet stamp...
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