MEMORIAL TO SPACEMEN.—This impressive aluminium monument to Russian cosmonauts sweeps hundreds of feet into the sky. Its height can be Judged from the boy walking along the base. Named the Sputnik Memorial, it was erected in Moscow in 1964. The first Sputnik was launched by the Russians in October, 1957. This photograph and the others reproduced on this page were taken by D. J. Corboy, a reporter of “The Press,” who recently visited Russia at the invitation of the Soviet Journalists’ Union.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31542, 2 December 1967, Page 21
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82MEMORIAL TO SPACEMEN.—This impressive aluminium monument to Russian cosmonauts sweeps hundreds of feet into the sky. Its height can be Judged from the boy walking along the base. Named the Sputnik Memorial, it was erected in Moscow in 1964. The first Sputnik was launched by the Russians in October, 1957. This photograph and the others reproduced on this page were taken by D. J. Corboy, a reporter of “The Press,” who recently visited Russia at the invitation of the Soviet Journalists’ Union. Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31542, 2 December 1967, Page 21
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