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USSR citizen Yuri Gagarin
USSR commemorative coin
Series: 20 th anniversary of the first manned flight into space
USSR citizen Yuri Gagarin
Par : 1 ruble
Release Date: 10.04.1981
Mint: Leningrad (LMD) (ST. Petersburg).
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| Metal, fineness | cooper-nickel |
| Quality | Proof and UNC |
| Total weight, g | 12.8 |
| Thickness, mm | 2.3 |
| Diameter, mm | 31 |
| The edge | The inscription "ОДИН РУБЛЬ ОДИН РУБЛЬ"("one ruble one ruble")of separated by two square dots. |
| Mintage, pcs. | 38000/ 3962000 |
1988 Novodel
Mint: Leningrad Mint (LMD) ( ST. Petersburg)
| Metal, fineness | cooper-nickel |
| Quality | Proof –like |
| Total weight, g | 12.8 |
| Thickness, mm | 2.3 |
| Diameter, mm | 31 |
| The edge | The inscription” ОДИН РУБЛЬ (One ruble )· 1988 · N ·", divided by three round dots. |
| Mintage, pcs. | 55000 |
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin( 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth. He received medals from around the world for his pioneering tour in space. Gagarin then became deputy training director of the Star City cosmonaut training base. At the same time, he began to re-qualify as a fighter pilot. On 27 March 1968, while on a routine training flight from Chkalovsky Air Base, he and flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin (Seregin) died in a MiG-15UTI crash near the town of Kirzhach. Gagarin and Seryogin were buried in the walls of the Kremlin on Red Square.
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