The Russian Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was first to spacewalk on the 18th March 1965
Cosmenauts
They were known as cosmonauts.
Valentina Tereshkova is a former Russian astronaut and the first woman to fly in space. She piloted the Vostok 6 mission which launched on June 16, 1963.
The name of the first astronaut to fly in space was Alan .b. Shepard.
It wasn't actually an astronaut. It was a Russian cosmonaut by the name of Yuri Gegarin (I believe that is how his name is spelled).
The first man in space was - Yuri Gagarin.
Russian Astronaut back the late 50's. Yuri Gargain.
Alan ( he is known as Al).
Niel Armstrong
("If you mean the first one launched, It was named "Sputnik 1".) Here we go again... NO It Wasn't! The first Spacecraft with a human to go into space was the Russian Satellite called 'Vostok', or 'Vostok 3KA'. 'Sputink', is the Russian word for 'Satellite', it was NOT the Name of the spacecraft. imagine if every Russian called 'Apollo 18' ... 'Satilite' with a heavy russian accent... DRrr Not. Now to address the question, name of a russian spaceship? there are many...
The name of the first Russian spacecraft was Sputnik 1, launched on October 4, 1957.
The first spacewalk was conducted from the Voskhod 2 spacecraft by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in 1965.