Features

Location-Russia 

Type-Unclassified exonumia › Miscellaneous token

Year-1991

Composition-Aluminium (space flown)

Weight-9.3 g

Diameter-40 mm

Thickness-3.3 mm

Shape-Round

Technique-MilledOrientation Medal

Number- N#109459

Commemorative issue

Yuri Gagarin, First Man In Space

Obverse

Yuri Gagarin bust left wearing spacesuit helmet.

Lettering: GAGARIN

Reverse

Vostok-I spacecraft in orbit above earth, with four stars.

Lettering:

FIRST MAN IN SPACE

VOSTOK

12.IV.1961

ПЕРВЫЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК В КОСМОСЕ

Translation: First Man in Space

Edge

Smooth

Comments

1991 commemorative medal produced by the Baikonur Cosmodrome using metal from the Vostok-I spacecraft. "This medal honors the flight of Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, who, on April 12, 1961 became the first man in space when he orbited the Earth aboard Vosstok-I."

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