My favourite hero is Juri Gagarin.
Yuri Gagarin
was born on the 9th of
March, 1934, in Klushino, a small village near Gzahtsk (now Gagarin). His parents worked on a collective farm.
Yuri was the third of four children, and his elder sister helped to raise him while his parents worked. During the war, the Nazis threw his family out of
their house and took away two of his sisters. Yuri helped his parents to dig a dugout where they lived
until the end of the occupation. In 1946,
the family moved to Gzahtsk.
In his youth, Gagarin
became interested in space and planets. When he was in his fourth year
of a technical school in Saratov, he joined a flying club and soon became a
wonderful pilot.
In
August 1960, when Gagarin was one of 20 possible candidates for the space
programme, an Air Force doctor wrote
about him: 'Modest, very intelligent,
fantastic memory, a very good imagination, quick reactions, understands life better than his friends, can defend his point
of view.' After his historic flight into space, Gagarin became famous all over the world.
Sadly, he died on the 27th of March, 1968, in a plane crash.
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