You are looking at the childhood photo of a person who was the first to orbit the Earth multiple times. He is German S. Titov, a Soviet astronaut who orbited Earth aboard Vostok 2 and was preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1.

G. S. Titov lived in the village of the Altai Territory from 1942 to 1946.

German Titov together with other members of a literature club who attended the village school.

G. Titov finished the secondary school.

G. Titov and his friend Yuri are cadets of the Air Force Academy.

G. Titov is a candidate to astronauts.

G. Titov’s parents and sister.

G. Titov with his wife, 1960.

Crimea. S. P. Korolev is surrounded by the first group of astronauts.

Titov is training.

Titov and Gagarin are studying at the Star City, 1961.

Gagarin, Titov and Nelyubov on the Red Square in Moscow, 1961.

Titov is delivering a speech at the meeting with members of the State Commission prior to the first manned space travel.

A group of astronauts before the meeting with members of the State Commission devoted to launch of Vostok spaceship, 1961.

Titov was Yuri Gagarin’s backer-up, 12.04.1961.

Titov on the moving platform, 1961.

Training at the Star City, 1961.

During flight training, Chkalovsky airfield, 1961.

Titov is playing hockey, 1961.

Skiing, 1961.

Training at the Star City, 1961.

Practical lessons in film recording.

In the park.

During a medical examination.

The examination was carried out before the flight, 1961.

Meeting of the prime and backup crews of Vostok-2 with the firing team.

G. Titov meets representatives of a ground telemetry station.

G. Titov reports about his readiness for a flight, August 6 1961.

Titov in a space suit, August 6 1961.

The portrait was made before the launch.

The written log of Vostok spaceship.

This photo of Earth was made by Titov from Vostok-2 spaceship on August 6 1961.

August 7 1961. The flight was successful.

Titov is met at Vnukovo airfield by Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gagarin, etc.

In the Georgy Hall of the Kremlin.

G. Titov’s pass to Red Square after his successful flight, August 9 1961.

Titov, Khrushchev and Gagarin on the tribune of the Lenin Mausoleum.

G. Titov is greeted on Red Square, August 9 1961.

G. TItov and Walter Ulbricht, the head of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin, September 1, 1961.

Titov and his parents, 1961.

Yuri Gagarin and German Titov.

Titov is delivering his speech to workers in Volgograd.

Titov meets his fellow soldiers, November 8, 1961. ‘To Our Fellow Soldier, the Hero of Space ‘

Titov and his wife at the reception hosted by UN Secretary General, 1962.

German Titov, John Kennedy and John Glenn, May 3 1962.

General Ahmad Yani’s wife and Soviet astronauts.

Titov and President of Indonesia, 1962.

Titov and President Ho Chi Minh, 1962.

Titov is greeting inhabitants of Gabrovo, 1962.

Titov and football goal-keeper A. Khomich,1962.

In the bosom of the family, Titov, his father and wife, 1962.

Titov and President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Keldysh M., 1962.

Astronauts in the dressing room of actor Raykin A.

Titov, Gagarin, Popovich and Nikolayev, 1963.

Titov, his wife and daughter, 1964.

Titov, Gagarin and a test pilot Mosolov,1964.

G.Titov and Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon M. Budyonny.

Y. Gagarin, G. Titov and other astronauts.

G. Titov and cadets of the Barnaul High Military Aviation School, 1967.

G. Titov and V. Arsentyev, 1975.

G. Titov in the Presidium of the solemn meeting commemorating the 30th anniversary of flight aboard Vostok-2.

G. Titov retired from the military on October 27, 1991.

G. Titov in a space suit,1961.

Students of the UDN and their special guest G. Titov,1963.

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