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Yuri Gagarin. He was in the Vostok spacecraft to orbit Earth on April 12, 1961.

The first Russian in space wasYuri Gagarin.
Russian astronauts are called cosmonauts.
Animals, such as dogs, monkeys, et al., were launched into space to test the spacecraft, but Yuri Gagarin was the first Russian and the first human to go into space on 12th April 1961.
Yuri Gagarin was the first Russian cosmonaut to go into space and orbit the Earth. His trip into space only lasted an hour and 48 minutes.
Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin; (9 March 1934 - 27 March 1968),was a soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first human in space and the first to orbit the Earth.
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