![[ASTRONAUTS]. Group photograph of 10 of the earliest Soviet cosmonauts, signed by eight individuals including: GERMAN TITOV, YURI GAGARIN, VALENTINA TERESHKOVA, ANDRIYAN NICOLAYEV, BORIS YEGOROV, VALERI BYKOVSKY, PAVEL POPOVICH, and VLADIMIR KOMOROV, n.d [1964].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/NYR/2007_NYR_01938_1007_000(021356).jpg?w=1)
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[ASTRONAUTS]. Group photograph of 10 of the earliest Soviet cosmonauts, signed by eight individuals including: GERMAN TITOV, YURI GAGARIN, VALENTINA TERESHKOVA, ANDRIYAN NICOLAYEV, BORIS YEGOROV, VALERI BYKOVSKY, PAVEL POPOVICH, and VLADIMIR KOMOROV, n.d [1964].
5 7/8 x 9 3/16 in., ink stamp dated November 1964 on verso. Inscribed in ink in broad lower margin.
THE PIONEER SOVIET COSMONAUTS. An excellent color group portrait of many of the most important early Soviet cosmonauts, in their regulation red uniforms (Tereshkova in a simple blouse with medal). The group, photographed in 1964, includes the first man to orbit the Earth--Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) on Vostok 1--and Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to fly in space (on Vostok 6, 16 June 1963).
5 7/8 x 9 3/16 in., ink stamp dated November 1964 on verso. Inscribed in ink in broad lower margin.
THE PIONEER SOVIET COSMONAUTS. An excellent color group portrait of many of the most important early Soviet cosmonauts, in their regulation red uniforms (Tereshkova in a simple blouse with medal). The group, photographed in 1964, includes the first man to orbit the Earth--Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) on Vostok 1--and Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to fly in space (on Vostok 6, 16 June 1963).