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VADIM PETROVICH VOLIKOV (1927-1989)
[GLORY TO THE SOVIET MAN - THE FIRST COSMONAUT]. 1961.
42 1/4x26 inches, 107 1/2x66 cm. Izogiz, Moscow. Condition B+: minor tears, creases and abrasions in margins; stain at upper right margin; scuffing at lower text. Paper.
"In the late 1950s and early 1960s the Soviet space programme achieved a remarkable set of triumphs in the Space Race . . . Volikov's poster depicts the first Soviet cosmonaut [Yuri Gagarin] as a monumental figure flanked by the Vostok rocket inscribed with the symbolic date of 1961' (Cold War p. 37). Cold War p. 36.
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