Alexi Leonov was the first man in space and he was from the USSR.
It's a Russian Astronaut.
They were known as cosmonauts.
Cosmonaut
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.
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.
Cosmonaut is the Russian word for astronaut.