I know legendary person called Yuriy Gagarin. it's the most famous pilot and cosmonaut. He is the first men who did the flight to the Moon. This event happened on 12 April in 1961. the flight was made from cosmodrome "Baykonur". All Russion people know word: "Poehali".
Yuriy was born on 9 of March in 1934 and died on 27 of March in 1968.
His life was short, but bright. Yuriy Gagarin is Pride of Russia.