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Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in the village of Klushino in the Western Region of the RSFSR (now the Smolensk Region). - In August 1951 he entered the foundry department of the Saratov Industrial College. - In October 1954 he first came to the Saratov DOSAAF Aero Club of the USSR. - In 1955 he made his first independent flight on a Yak-18 aircraft. - In total, the aero club performed 196 flights and flew 42 hours 23 minutes. - In October 1957 he graduated from the 1st Military Aviation School of Pilots named after V.I. Voroshilov....
