Soviet Union gymnast Yuri Korolev, winner of nine gold medals at the World Championships, but who was denied an opportunity to compete at the Olympics by boycotts and injury, has died at the age ...

From the giant statue on Moscow's Leninsky Avenue to the famous 1969 mosaic by Soviet artist, Yuri Korolev, "The Cosmonaut" Gagarin's image represent a national hero. But Gagarin's roots were humble.

Yuri Gagarin seen dressing in a heating/cooling garment worn under his orange pressure suit. Famed Russian spacecraft S. P. Korolev (in fedora hat) and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin walk to the ...

“And that is why Yuri Gagarin ejected at 20,000ft (6km) and the capsule landed separately.” For his next spacecraft, Voskhod, Korolev’s engineers designed a ‘soft’ landing ...

On this day in 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in ... His name was Sergei Korolev, and his influence on the Soviet space program stretched much farther than Gagarin’s 108 minutes ...

Yuri bravely strapped into his Soviet Vostok 1 spacecraft and was thrust into the great unknown, humanity’s final frontier. His achievement was the brainchild of Sergei Poplovich Korolev ...