Michael Laxer
Daily LIFT #786
Comrades Fidel Castro and Yuri Gagarin in Havana, July 1961 -- Daily LIFT #786
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Michael Laxer
- Jun 16
- 1 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
- 1 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
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #689
Yuri Gagarin and Fidel Castro meet, Havana 1961 -- Daily LIFT #689
Michael Laxer
- Apr 12
- 2 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
- 1 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
- 6 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 9
- 1 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
- 5 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, 2021
- 1 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 3, 2021
- 1 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, 2021
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #544
Yuri Gagarin enjoying a game of pool -- Daily Lift #544
Michael Laxer
- Sep 25, 2021
- 4 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, 2021
- 18 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, 2021
- 1 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, 2021
- 2 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...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 9, 2021
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #408
Space Will Serve People, Gagarin poster, USSR 1971 -- Daily LIFT #408 Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, was born March 9, 1934. A...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 9, 2021
- 1 min
Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space, born March 9, 1934
"Having rounded the Earth in a satellite spaceship, I have seen how beautiful our planet is. Let us preserve and multiply this beauty,...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 7, 2021
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #406
The Yuri Gagarin Monument, Moscow USSR 1981 -- Daily LIFT #406
Michael Laxer
- Mar 3, 2021
- 2 min
Soviet Kaluga 1974 -- Images of the city of Tsiolkovsky
Kaluga is a mid-sized city (pop. approximately 300,000) located about 100 miles southwest of Moscow that is best known for being the...