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VADIM PETROVICH VOLIKOV (1927-1989)
[GLORY TO THE SOVIET MAN - THE FIRST COSMONAUT]. 1961.
42x25½ inches, 106¾x64¾ cm. Izogiz, Moscow. Condition A- / A: minor creases along vertical and horizontal folds. 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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