Yuri Gagarin USSR Space Cosmonaut Beauty Of Earth

£490.00

Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster featuring a great image of the first man in space - on 12 April 1961 - the pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; 1934-1968) with his helmet blending in to form the earth with stars in the dark space background and a hand written message in Russian below: Flying around our planet in a rocket I saw how beautiful it is. Let us multiply this beauty and not destroy it – Yuri Gagarin. Good condition, small tears, small paper loss on corner, light creasing.

Country

Russia

Year

1986

Style

Propaganda Posters

Artist

A. Lozenko

Size (cm)

98x65.5