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Historically Important Space Hero of the Soviet Union and Lenin Prize Awards.
HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT GROUP OF SOVIET AWARDS AND DOCUMENTS PRESENTED TO IGOR YURASOV, CHIEF DESIGNER WITHIN THE SOVIET SPACE PROGRAMME.
Labour Hero of the Soviet Union: gold star numbered on reverse (15950) in original red case.
Gilt and black printed certificate of award in embossed red folder and outer protective case.
USSR Lenin Prize Medal in solid gold numbered on reverse 133, in orginal case of issue. This medal was the Russian equivalent of a Nobel prize award, an award not accepted in Soviet Russia.
Gilt and black printed award certificate with tipped in photograph of Lenin, in red leather presentation binding mounted with metal portrait medallion of Lenin.
Folding leather cased privilege pass associated with a Lenin Prize medal bearing photograph of Yurasov.
On the 12th April, 1961 Major Yuri Gagarin became the first human being in space aboard the 4.7 ton spacecraft Vostock I. He made a complete orbit of the earth reaching an altitude of 327 kilometres, and landed 108 minutes after lift off, having parachuted from the re-entry module at a height of around 7 kilometres.
Igor Yurasov was one of the four most important scientists with the Soviet Space Programme from its inception. He was Chief Designer and a leader within the Research and Design Breau, that created the rocket engines for the first Soviet spacecraft.
Following Gagarin’s flight he was given the distinction of Labour Hero of the Soviet Union, the citation for the award stating “For outstanding achievements in creating unique examples of rocket technology and maintaining the successful flight of the first human, a Soviet citizen, into space.” The boxed award and boxed issue document were issued by degree of June 17th 1961 by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, and the latter is signed in ink by the then Chairman, and later President of the USSR, Brezhnev. Yurasov had previously received the Lenin Prize Gold Medal with boxed certificate by degree of December 18th, 1957. This high distinction carries numerous special privileges and the leather cased pass with the recipient’s photograph showed his entitlement.
When mail was delivered to Soyuz 4 in space in January 1969 Yurasov was one of a few of the most important officials who signed these letters of congratulations. Those documents were sold by Sotheby’s in December 1993 for over $123,500.
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| Code: 410548Price: £12500.00 |
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