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In Focus: This Town Is a Cosmonaut Shrine

By David Schonauer   Monday October 22, 2018

In 1968, the provincial Russian town of Gzhatsk officially changed its name to Gagarin in commemoration of its famous native son, Yuri Gagarin, who was born on a Soviet collective farm outside the town and would go on to become the first man in space. Like many Russians, photographer Daria …

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