No. The USSR was.
Russia
The Soviet Union was the first country to put a satellite in space on October 4, 1957, with the launch of Sputnik 1.
Yuri Gagarin was the first man (and first Russian) to be put in space.
The Soviet Union.
USSR .
The U.S.S.R was the first country to put a spaceship in space, it was called Sputnik. It was in the year 1957.
Russia Yuri Gagarin
Russia to put a man in orbit US to put on the moon
For about the first 15 years of space travel,almost all of the people who did it were men.
The Mir was launched by the Soviet Union.
The first country to launch a satellite into space was Russia, under the Soviet Union. The satellite was 'Sputnik 1'. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It's launch sparked a crisis within the US which precipitated the space race during the Cold War.
The Russians put the first satellite into orbit named sputnik.