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  Pravda.RU:70th anniversary of Gagarin's birthday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Yury Gagarin, the first man in space, was born 70 years ago in Gzhatsk in the Smolensk Region (Central Federal District).
A pilot must fly,'" Tatiana Belova, the chief custodian of the Gagarin memorial museum in Gzhatsk, told RIA Novosti.
After the fascist occupation, the Gagarin family moved from Klushino to Gzhatsk in 1945.
newsfromrussia.com /main/2004/03/09/52689_.html   (534 words)

  
 yurigagrinapril1961   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Yuri Alekseyevich was born on March 9, 1934 in the Smolensk region of Russia.
His family was dislodged from their home during World War II and relocated to the town of Gzhatsk which is in the northern part of Smolensk.
The town of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin and there is a crater on the far side of the moon named after Yuri Gagarin.
www.gfsnet.org /msweb/sixties/yurigagrinapril1961.htm   (589 words)

  
 Canadian Slavonic Papers: Uprooting otherness: Bolshevik attempts to refashion rural Russia via the reading rooms of ...
Chaplin and L. Faivilovich of Komsomol's Central Committee, and the Chairman of the Central Committee of the education union, A. Korostelev, sang the praises of Komsomol in January 1925.
The Gzhatsk uezd Komsomol in the spring of 1925 gave a glowing report of the width and depth of work being conducted in its seven rooms and their network of red corners.
For example, on 17 May 1925, in the Karmanov region of Gzhatsk, Komsomol hosted a "Day of the Forest," which was a modest success.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_199609/ai_n8751532/pg_2   (1106 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Yuri Gagarin
Gagarin was born in the Smolensk region of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
His family was displaced during World War II (1939-1945) and moved to the town of Gzhatsk in the northeastern part of Smolensk.
In 1949 Gagarin began his higher education at a manufacturing trade school in Lyubertsy, a town outside of Moscow.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571506/Yuri_Gagarin.html   (651 words)

  
 Military Zone - British Council
Although it took place over forty years ago, Yuri Gagarin’s flight into space is still seen as feat of breathtaking significance.
Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9 1934 in Gzhatsk, a small village about 160kms west of Moscow.
He completed his studies at the Gzhatsk secondary school and began a technical apprenticeship.
www.learnenglish.org.uk /militaryenglish/magazine/people.asp?person=92   (708 words)

  
 Operational Situation Report USSR No. 133
In the course of the advance of Army Group Center, a number of newly-occupied towns like Briansk, Ordzhonikedzegrad, Uritski, Gzhatsk, Rzhev were also treated according to SD methods by the Kommandos of the Einsatzgruppe.
Once again one can state generally that the civilian population of the towns that are now occupied by our troops were systemitically evacuated [by the Soviets] quite a while ago.
Thus, EK9, which is marching towards Moscow, reports that in the town Yartsevo where 7,000 Jews used to live, not a single one has remained.
www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com /osr133.html   (1967 words)

  
 Space   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Gagarin was born on March.9th, 1934 on a collective farm near Gzhatsk, about 100 miles west of Moscow.
After he was killed the town of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin.
A crater on the far side of the moon was also named Gagarin, and the main center for cosmonaut trained at a star city, Russia is called Gagarin Cosmonaut.
www.spp.k12.nf.ca /kw1space.html   (468 words)

  
 Yuri Alexeivich Gagarin Biography / Biography of Yuri Alexeivich Gagarin Biography
Yuri Gagarin, the third child of Alexei Ivanovich, a carpenter on a collective farm, and Anna Timofeyevna, was born on March 9, 1934, in the village of Klushino, Smolensk Province.
Yuri attended an elementary school in Gzhatsk; in the sixth grade he began to study physics.
At the age of 15 he became an apprentice foundryman in an agricultural machinery plant outside Moscow and enrolled in an evening school.
www.bookrags.com /biography-yuri-alexeivich-gagarin   (812 words)

  
 Gzhatsk #1043 #1078 #1072 #1090 #1089 #1082 town in Smolensk...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Gzhatsk #1043 #1078 #1072 #1090 #1089 #1082 town in Smolensk...
"Gzhatsk" ("Гжатск"), town in Smolensk Oblast Smolensk Oblast, Russia Russia.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
www.biodatabase.de /Gzhatsk   (84 words)

  
 The Age Of Lucya: Chapter I
Its dozen homesteads lay comfortably in the lowland, divided by fruit orchards and lush pastures, framed with clear lakes and translucent birch forests, and it was hard to believe that only ten years ago an obscure swamp used to be where now intelligent life thrived.
Latvians had been living in the south of Gzhatsk Uezd since the turn of the 20th century, having come to the central Russia from the crowded Courlandia of their fathers after the Russian Government lured them with large lots of land and generous bank loans.
Not long before he died by the hand of a revolutionary assassin, Stolypin spoke of the prosperity that Russia could enjoy if only she had "twenty years of peace," but where history is in the making, no peace is to be expected.
www.the-age-of-lucya.org   (8186 words)

  
 Saturday, March 6, 1943
Red Army troops capture Gzhatsk on the approaches to Vyazma, south of Rzhev.
A major Axis attack on Medenine, mounted in the morning, is defeated.
Two Japanese destroyers, however, are sunk in an encounter engagement.
www.onwar.com /chrono/1943/mar1943/06mar43.htm   (134 words)

  
 VOice for The Earth
He was born in the village of Klushino in the Smolensk region.
After the war Gagarin`s family moved to Gzhatsk.
Now it is Gagarin.It was named after the first cosmonaut.
www.kids-space.org /cgi-bin/VOTE/forum/form_view.cgi?country=Russia   (229 words)

  
 The Voice of Russia [ RUSSIAN IN SPACE ]
In the very heart of Russia, near the old town of Gzhatsk amidst birch groves stands the small village of Klushino.
The village is the birthplace of Yuri Gagarin, born a fifth child in the family of a carpenter.
When the war ended the Gagarin family moved to Gzhatsk.
www.vor.ru /Space/Space_next100_eng.html   (837 words)

  
 First Flight Shrine: Colonel Yuri A. Gagarin - The First Flight Society - The First Flight Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Only eight years later, a person walked on the moon.
Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934, in the city of Gzhatsk, Russia, into a collective farmer's family.
He graduated in 1957 from the Voroshilov Aviation Technical Academy and soon afterward became a military fighter pilot with the rank of Lieutenant.
www.firstflight.org /shrine/gagarin.cfm   (226 words)

  
 The Voice of the Turtle
"Born 9 March 1934 in the village of Klushino, Gzhatsk Raion, Smolensk Oblast; died 27 March 1968.
"To immortalize Gagarin's memory, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RFSFR renamed the city of Gzhatsk, Smolensk Oblast, as the city of Gagarin and the Gzhatsk Raion, Smolensk Oblast, as the Gagarin Raion.
Gagarin was also accorded to the Red Banner of the Order of Kutuzov Air Force Academy in Monino.
www.voiceoftheturtle.org /dictionary/dict_g1.php   (2436 words)

  
 Russian Citizenship for Veteran of the World War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
After training courses in Gorki the battalions were sent to battlefront.
With the front advancing he went from Volokolamsk to Gzhatsk (Gagarin).
In 1942 he was seriously wounded and sent in a hospital in the Altai territory.
www.geocities.com /russiaveteran/index_en.html   (433 words)

  
 first manned space flight - history - central - British Council - LearnEnglish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Major Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934, in the Gzhatsk district of the Smolensk region (Russian Federation), the son of a collective farmer.
He went to school in 1941 but, like many children in the Western parts of the U.S.S.R., had to discontinue his education because of the Nazi invasion.
He later entered an industrial college at Saratov, graduating with honours in 1955.
www.britishcouncil.org /et/learnenglish-central-history-space-flight.htm   (495 words)

  
 Yuri Gagarin - Topic Powered by Infopop
Yuri Gagarin was born on 9 March 1934, in the village of Klushino, some 100 miles (161 km) West of Moscow, situated near the town of Gzhatsk (now named Gagarin in his honour) in the Smolensk Region.
When the Germans retreated, they took two of Yuri's sisters, but they were released after the War.
The Gagarin family moved to Gzhatsk after the War, where Yuri re-commenced school.
forum.quoteland.com /1/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=586192041&f=785191641&m=7201943976   (1782 words)

  
 Yuri Gagarin
He was also a Soviet Air Force pilot and a parachutist.
Yuri Gagarin's parents were peasants on a collective farm in the village of Gzhatsk.
Gagarin thus represented the ideal of the "new communist man." Gzhatsk is now called "Gagarin City."
www.vibrationdata.com /Yuri.htm   (547 words)

  
 PYTHOM - Space Expeditions
Yuri Gagarin was born March 9, 1934, in Gzhatsk in the country-side west of Moscow.
He grew up on a collective farm, where his father worked as a carpenter.
A trained metalworker and technician, he enrolled at an industrial college and took lessons at a local flying school.
www.pythom.com /story/stories/IseeEarthItssobeautifulSep282004.shtml   (649 words)

  
 Operational Situation Report USSR No. 148
The Russian Ivan Gorlov in Gzhatsk, a member of the Communist Party since 1924 who was proved to have participated in setting fire to mills, warehouses, and granaries;
Two Russians who, after the arrival of the German troops, carried out looting of food, and illegal slaughtering in Gzhatsk;
A Russian in Orel who was caught in the act of setting a fire, and 12 other persons, among them several Jews, who were proved to have helped in starting other fires;
www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com /osr148.html   (667 words)

  
 March 09
Future astronaut candidate Frank Elmer Jr Liethen born in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA.
Future cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin born in Gzhatsk, Smolensk, Russia.
Future cosmonaut Dr Gherman Semyonovich Arzamazov born in Shubino, Russia.
www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/thisday/march09.htm   (665 words)

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