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Michael Laxer
Jan 291 min read
Daily LIFT #1553
Yuri Gagarin taking out the Komsomol Banner at the closing ceremony of the XIV Komsomol Congress, April 1962 -- Daily LIFT #1553 Image...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 13, 20241 min read
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 24, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1429
Remarkable photo of early Soviet cosmonauts Pavel Popovich, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Valeri Bykovsky, Andrian Nikolayev and...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 21, 20231 min read
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
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Michael Laxer
Feb 3, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #876
Yuri Gagarin Portrait, Pyotr Tarasovich Maltsev, USSR -- Daily LIFT #876
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Michael Laxer
Aug 31, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #786
Comrades Fidel Castro and Yuri Gagarin in Havana, July 1961 -- Daily LIFT #786
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Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #734
Nikita Khrushchev with Valentina Tereshkova, Yuri Gagarin and other Soviet cosmonauts in Moscow's Red Square on June 22, 1963 -- Daily...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 14, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #733
Che greets Yuri Gagarin as he arrives in Cuba after his historic flight, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #733
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Michael Laxer
Apr 12, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #689
Yuri Gagarin and Fidel Castro meet, Havana 1961 -- Daily LIFT #689
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Michael Laxer
Apr 12, 20222 min read
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...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 11, 20221 min read
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...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 10, 20226 min read
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...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #668
Comrades Yuri Gagarin and Nikita Khrushchev embrace in Moscow days after Gagarin's historic flight into space -- Daily LIFT #668 Gagarin...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20225 min read
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...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 5, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #571
Castro and Brezhnev meet with future cosmonauts at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #571
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Michael Laxer
Nov 3, 20211 min read
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:...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 25, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #544
Yuri Gagarin enjoying a game of pool -- Daily Lift #544
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Michael Laxer
Sep 25, 20214 min read
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...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 16, 202118 min read
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...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 12, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #432
Yuri Gagarin with his daughters Galya and Lena, 1964 -- Daily LIFT #432 Today marked the 60th anniversary of Gagarin's historic,...
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