Glory to the Soviet People, the Pioneers of Space! (1962) Poster

Please note, we also sell a framed version of this poster here on RUS & SOV. About the Poster Glory to the Soviet People, the Pioneers of Space! (Russian: Советскому народу пионеру космоса, СЛАВА!) is a 1962 Soviet propaganda poster by Vadim Volikov (Russian: Вадим Воликов) that celebrates the early explorers of outer space. In the background of the poster you can see four space shuttles soaring through the heavens: Vostok 1 (1961): pilot, Yuri Gagarin, became the first man to enter space and orbit the earth  Vostok 2 (1961): pilot, Gherman Titov, became the fourth person in space, the second to orbit the moon, and the first to spend a full day in space Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 (1962): pilots, Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich, served in the first simultaneous flight of two crewed missions After the publication of this poster, there would be two more Vostok missions. Vostok 5 (1963) took Valery Bykovsky to space, and Vostok 6 (1963) took Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in