where was this cosmonaut from?
Klushino
Yuri Gagarin
 Klushino
where did the launching of sputnik take place It was launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit who was responsible for the launch? The Soviet Union when was it launched? 4 October 1957 was it a part of any space program? UNANSWERABLE was the union involved in any other such program? Yes, On April 12, 1961, the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, was sent to the space. He once flew around the Earth and successfully landed in the Kazakh steppe.
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Yuri Gagarin [SEP] Early life
Yuri Gagarin was born 9 March 1934 in the village of Klushino, near Gzhatsk (renamed Gagarin in 1968 after his death). His parents worked on a collective farm—Alexey Ivanovich Gagarin as a carpenter and Anna Timofeyevna Gagarina as a dairy farmer. Yuri was the third of four children. His older brother Valentin was born in 1924 and by the time Yuri was born was already helping with the cattle on the farm. His sister Zoya, born in 1927, helped take care of "Yura" and their youngest brother Boris, born in 1936. Situated along the path of several invasions into Russia, Gagarin's hometown has been the site of many wars and conquests from foreign nations.