Soviet Space Program
Cultural Impact: The Cult of the Cosmonaut2:3 portrait Soviet propaganda poster. A heroic cosmonaut in a white SK-1 pressure helmet labeled CCCP in red Cyrillic, three-quarter profile looking upward. Behind the cosmonaut, a brilliant rising red sun fills the upper half of the poster with radiating gold rays. A small white Vostok capsule arcs across the rays trailing a red flame. Cream and red background. Bottom band reads ПЕРВЫЙ ГРАЖДАНИН КОСМОСА (First Citizen of the Cosmos).
Первый Гражданин Космоса

First Citizen of the Cosmos

1961 - Gagarin era

Soviet space propaganda poster in the visual idiom of 1961, the year of Yuri Gagarin's flight. An idealized cosmonaut in a CCCP-marked pressure helmet against a rising red sunburst, with a small Vostok capsule arcing across the rays. Inspired by the heroic-portrait posters of the early Space Age. Available as a print at sovietspaceprogram.com.

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