April 12 - cosmonautics Day

April 12 - cosmonautics Day
Catalog #
4693
Date of Issue
1977 12 April
Denomination
6kop
Color
Gray-blue, lilac, dark cherry
Artist
Paper
Chalk-surfaced
Printing method
Intaglio
Perforation
Harrow 12:11½
Issued
6,600,000
Tags
Space
Description
The portrait of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (1934 - 1968) in an open face mask and a Laurel branch. The first artificial Earth satellite, Soviet space complex Soyuz - Salyut in the docked state on the background of the Earth and automatic interplanetary station "Venera-10" in flight to the planet Venus.

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