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Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in the village of Klushino in the Gzhatsk region of the Western Oblast (now the Gagarin region of the Smolensk Oblast) in a peasant family. He became the first person in world history to make a spaceflight. On April 12, 1961, aboard the Vostok spacecraft, Gagarin made the first orbital flight around the Earth, opening the era of manned space flights.