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A RUSSIAN PHOTO AUTOGRAPHED BY YURI GAGARIN - Photo of Yuri Gagarin and Nikita Khrushchev, taken on April 15, 1961, autographed by Yuri Gagarin.Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, achieving a major milestone in the Space Race; his capsule, Vostok 1, completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and as chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 4 in.