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Medal - Yuri Gagarin
| Location | Soviet Union (Russia) |
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| Year | 1964 |
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| Composition | Gold (.900) |
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| Obverse description | High-relief left-facing bust of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin filling the field, rendered with fine naturalistic detail. The Cyrillic legend ЮРИЙ ГАГАРИН is inscribed vertically along the left and right sides of the field respectively. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | A dynamic allegorical figure of a man with outstretched arms soars through space, accompanied by a rocket and a radiant star to the left, all in high relief against a polished field. In the lower portion of the field, a four-line Cyrillic legend commemorates Gagarin as the world's first cosmonaut with the date of his spaceflight, followed by the USSR inscription and the fineness mark incused in the lower left. |
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