Alexi Leonov was the first man in space and he was from the USSR.
It's a Russian Astronaut.
Cosmonaut
They were known as cosmonauts.
A cosmonaut is another term for an astronaut. Generally, the term "cosmonaut" is used only for astronauts associated with the Soviet or Russian space program.
ASTRONAUT : one who travels in space (also, cosmonaut, the Russian term)
the Russian wor for an astronaut. they call them cosmonaut.
космонавт (Anglecized . . . 'Cosmonaut')
cosmonaut-means Russian astronaut
Soviet Russian. Valentina Tereshkova
The Russian Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was first to spacewalk on the 18th March 1965
Cosmenauts
Cosmonaut is the conventional English term for a Russian astronaut, but the terms astronaut and cosmonaut are considered interchangeable. Cosmonaut derives from the Greek for universe + sailor.The Soviet [Russian] cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin has the distinction of having been the first human in space and the first to orbit, orbiting the Earth in 1961.