#soviet cosmonauts

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

"I don't see any god up here. But from here the Earth is beautiful, without borders or divisions."

The first words of a human in space.

Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961.

Thanks to Clara Statello

[sovietpostcards]

"To Space" by Nikolai Surin (1961)

[thererisesaredstar]

Yuri Gagarin on vacation in the Crimean peninsula (1961)

[thecatcherintherye]

this is from months ago and yet i still think about it everyday

[proustianlesbian]

happy 89th birthday to Boris Volynov !! he is the last of the first cosmonauts and the first jewish person to go in space as well as one of my favorite cosmonauts (with yuri gagarin, sigmund jähn, arnaldo tamayo and valeri bykovski) and a great inspiration since i was little !!

💙🌌🚀✡️👨🏻‍🚀💙

[degeneratedworker]

"Be proud, Soviet man, you have opened the path to the stars from the Earth!" Soviet Union c. 1960

[poligraf]

« Phantasmagorical Soviet Painting In Pripyat, Ukraine » [Unidentified Artist]

[70sscifiart]

A Soviet Soyuz spacecraft  in Earth orbit docks with an American Apollo spacecraft, painted by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in 1974

[ducksinspaceadventure]

Happy birthday to Yuri Gagarin and happy birthday to Valentina Tereshkova, the first people in space! Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 and was the first man in space, while Valentina Tereshkova was born on March 6, 1937 and was the first woman in space!

I know it's been a while, but I'm posting this bearing in mind that today is also Donald's birthday (in addition to June 9). I certainly love that both Donald and Della in the cartoons and comics love space travel and that they are both astronauts and I would love to see more stuff like that about the two of them as well as the Duck family going into space. Yes, Gagarin also means duck.

[kosmosonite]

ULTRAVISIONNARY SOCIALISM:

Heya ! I finally have time to draw myself in a retrofuturist/constructivist style.

It follows in the logic of the space films of the 60s and 70s, when the Cold War never really ended and the USSR and USA continued to fight in space.

And in bonus i quickly did something i have in mind for a while, it's the meeting of Lance from the original universe of @thisbelongsto-nohbodys . Please go check out it's great and pretty fun!

[ezicorifl]

Best guys from ssf

[sovietpostcards]

Soviet Cosmonautics Day postcards with premier jour (first day) cancels

[thererisesaredstar]

We were born to make the fairy tale come true! (1960)

[histonics]

[proustianlesbian]

Today is the 59th anniversary of the first ever spacewalk in the history of humanity !! The cosmonaut-painter Alexei Arkhipovitch Leonov (Алексе́й Архи́пович Лео́нов) realised it on this day, the 18th of March, in 1965 !!

🎨🚀🛰️👨🏼‍🚀🌌💙

Here he is with three of my other favorite cosmonauts : Yuri Gagarin, Boris Volynov and Sigmund Jähn !!

Alexei Leonov painted since childhood, and very well, so he obviously portrayed his experience as the first man going outside in the cosmos. Here are some paintings of him that I particulary love. The first one is the one he realised while on board of the Voskhod 2 flight mission, which is the first art made in space, representing the sunrise over the Earth.

I really adore how his art makes space look so silent and almost terrifying because of its endless immensity yet manages to show its beauty because of the stars and planets and nebulas 🌌💙. I absolutely love his work on the colours, he makes the cosmos looks bright and dreamlike and so hopeful !!

Alexei Leonov was also captain during the Apollo-Soyuz mission, ten years later in July 1975.

[degeneratedworker]

"Visit the USSR - The country of the world's first cosmonaut!" Soviet Union 1965