It was a male, the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, on April 12,1961. The first woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, went on June 16th,1963.
cosmonaut
The first Russian woman to travel in space is Valentina Tereshkova. At the same time, she became the first ever woman to enter space. Links are provided to relevant Wikipedia articles.
Yuri gagarin was a Russian cosmonaut and the first man to go in space.
Cosmonaut.
The first man in space was the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on 12 April 1961.
I wouldn't trade my dad for a cosmonaut! I'm pretty sure that it was a cosmonaut that was the first to orbit the Earth.
Georgi Ivanov
Uri Gagarin
No Russian cosmonaut has landed on the moon. The first human to walk on the moon was American astronaut Neil Armstrong in 1969.
The first cosmonaut to walk in space was Alexei Leonov, a Russian Soviet cosmonaut. He made history on March 18, 1965, during the Voskhod 2 mission by becoming the first person to conduct a spacewalk.
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.
The first female cosmonaut was Valentina Tereshkova.
Yuri Gagarin, Russian Cosmonaut
Cosmenauts
The late Russian Yuri Gagarin was the first cosmonaut in space.