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Weird and wonderful discoveries in Tashkent – six places you should visit in the Uzbek capital
And the capital, Tashkent, is a mighty metropolis with ... It honours Soviet cosmonauts such as Yuri Gagarin and Valentine Tereshkova, respectively the first man and woman in space.
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‘Gagarin’s Start’ launch site at Baikonur spaceport to be turned into museum
The Site No. 1 (or Gagarin's Start) - the oldest launchpad at the Baikonur spaceport - is where the first artificial earth satellite and the Vostok spaceship carrying the first man in space, Yuri ...