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Yuri Gagarin commemorative award certificate folio issued by the Cosmonautics Federation of the USSR. The inner spread features a color portrait of Gagarin with a facsimile signature beneath, while the opposing certificate page is hand signed by Soviet cosmonaut Nikolai Rukavishnikov and dated February 22, 1999. The folio was presented in connection with the 70th anniversary of the birth of Vasily Savinykh.

Fine condition.

Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) became the first human to travel into space on April 12, 1961, completing a single orbit of Earth aboard Vostok 1. His historic flight made him one of the defining figures of the Space Age.

Nikolai Rukavishnikov (1932-2002) was a Soviet cosmonaut and engineer who flew aboard Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, and Soyuz 33. He was a veteran of three space missions and played an important role in the Soviet Soyuz program.

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