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Yuri GagarinYuri Gagarin✔ Yuri Gagarin is the

Russian cosmonaut. He was the first cosmonaut in the world. Yuri Gagarin was born on the 9th of March, 1934. On 12 April 1961 he flew into space and spent 108 minutes there. It was the first time in history when the Russian spaceship «Vostok» with the man on board was in space. He died in 1968.

Valentina TereshkovaValentina Tereshkova

✔ Valentina Tereshkova is the Russian spacewoman. She is the first spacewoman in the world. Valentina Tereshkova was born on the 6th of March, 1937. On 16 June 1963 she flew into space on the spaceship «Vostok-6» and spent almost three days there.

Peter the GreatPeter the Great

✔ Peter the Great (Peter I) was the Russian Tsar since 1682, the first Russian Emperor since 1721. During his reign a powerful navy was created and Russia became a powerful nation.

Petr KapitsaPetr Kapitsa

✔ Petr Kapitsa (1894-1984) was an outstanding Russian physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1978) who made important discoveries in different areas.

✔ He was born on the 8th of July 1894 and died on the 8 of April 1984.

Dmitri MendeleevDmitri Mendeleev✔ Dmitri Mendeleev

was a Russian scientist and encyclopedist: chemist, physicist, metrological, economist and engineer. He discovered the law of the chemical elements. Dmitri Mendeleev was born on the 8th February 1834; died on the 2 February 1907.

Leonid RoshalLeonid Roshal✔ Leonid Roshal is a

famous children's surgeon, a professor, the head of the Moscow Institute of Emergency Children's Surgery and Traumatology, which treats 60,000 children a year. He was born on the 27th of April 1933.

Konstantin ThonKonstantin Thon

✔ Konstantin Thon was a famous Russian architect who designed and built beautiful buildings in St Petersburg and Moscow. His major works are the Grand Kremlin Palace and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

Georgy ZhukovGeorgy Zhukov✔ Georgy Zhukov was a

Soviet military leader, the Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943), the Minister of Defense of the USSR (1955-1957). During World War II he held the post of the Chief of the General Staff, the commander of the front, a member of the Supreme Command, Deputy Supreme Commander