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Russian Right Stuff

Soviet space poster from 1965 (Credit: Unknown/Alamy)
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How space inspired Soviet artists

By Stephen Dowling

Cosmism helped inspire some Soviet scientists to imagine whole communities in space (Credit: Found Image Holdings/Getty Images)
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Russia's 'religion of the stars'

By Benjamin Ramm
Soviet space capsules under construction in 1961 (Credit: Sovfoto/Getty Images)
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The USSR’s simple space-race solutions

By Richard Hollingham
Gagarin's iconic presence did not die with the fall of the Soviet Union (Credit: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images)
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The soft power of Yuri Gagarin

By Stephen Dowling
Art of cosmonauts in space (Credit: Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
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How the cosmonauts conquered space

By Richard Hollingham

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