Glory to the first cosmonaut Y. A. Gagarin! 1961

This poster was made in 1961 to celebrate Yuri A. Gagarin’s flight, featuring the inscription “Glory to the first cosmonaut Y.A. Gagarin!”. The artist is Valentin Petrovich Viktorov. The image shows Gagarin in his cosmonaut helmet alongside a rocket launching, set against a dark star-filled sky, with the Soviet hammer and sickle emblem visible on the rocket. It’s a propaganda piece meant to emphasize Soviet achievement in space and to glorify the first human journey into orbit.