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Image # : cosmonauts1960
Date : 05/1961

Title

Original 1960 Group of Cosmonauts

Full Description

The original 1960 group of cosmonauts is shown in a photo from May 1961 at the seaside port of Sochi. The names of many of these men were considered state secrets for more than twenty-five years. Sitting in front from left to right: Pavel Popovich, Viktor Gorbatko, Yevgeniy Khrunov, Yuri Gagarin, Chief Designer Sergey Korolev, his wife Nina Koroleva with Popovich's daughter Natasha, Cosmonaut Training Center Director Yevgeniy Karpov, parachute trainer Nikolay Nikitin, and physician Yevgeniy Fedorov. Standing the second row from left to right: Aleksey Leonov, Andrian Nikolayev, Mars Rafikov, Dmitriy Zaykin, Boris Volynov, German Titov, Grigoriy Nelyubov, Valeriy Bykovskiy, and Georgiy Shonin. In the back from left to right: Valentin Filatyev, Ivan Anikeyev, and Pavel Belyayeu. Four cosmonauts were missing from the photograph, Anatoliy Kartashov and Valentin Varlamov and had both been dropped from training because of injuries. Valentin Bondarenko died in a training accident a few months before. Vladimir Komarov was indisposed. I. Snegirev took the original photo.

Keywords

Cosmonaut Training Center Sochi Popovich Gorbatko Khrunov Gagarin Korolev Koroleva Karpov Nikitin Fedorov Leonov Nikolayev Rafikov Zaykin Volynov Titov Nelyubov Bykovskiy Shonin Filatyev Anikeyev Belyayeu Kartashov Varlamov Bondarenko Komarov Snegirev

Subject Category

Soviet People-Cosmonauts, Soviet People-Pioneers

Reference Numbers

  • Center: HQ
  • Center Number: cosmonauts1960
  • GRIN DataBase Number: GPN-2002-000167

Source Information

  • Creator/Photographer: I. Snegirev
  • Original Source: DIGITAL
  • Source/Capture Information: Asif Siddiqi

Image Information ( Copyright Notification )

ResolutionFormatWidth
(Pixels)		Height
(Pixels)		Size
(KBytes)
Thumbnail JPEG 63 35 4
Small JPEG 448 250 90
Medium JPEG 1050 587 455
Large JPEG 2100 1173 1,382

Publication Information

Image from the files of Asif Siddiqi. Image and caption from Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945- 1974 (NASA SP-2000-4408) by Asif A. Siddiqi. Please note that the image number assigned to this image is not an official NASA number. It is for GRIN database purposes only.
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