An album with 2 autographs of Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov

Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut and the first person to fly into space on April 12, 1961. After this flight, Gagarin became an international celebrity and a hero of the Soviet Union. He was also an active participant in various events and trips outside the Soviet Union, promoting the ideas of peaceful use of space and friendship between peoples.

Vladimir Komarov is a Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, who made the first ever multi-seat space flight on the Voskhod-1 spacecraft in 1964. An engineer by training and one of the first explorers of space, Komarov went down in history as a professional of the highest class, but his name is forever associated with the world's first space disaster — upon returning to Earth on April 24, 1967, the Soyuz-1 spacecraft with Komarov on board crashed.

The album is a rare multilingual edition of Views of Moscow (in Russian, English, French, German, Spanish and Arabic), published by the publishing house of literature in foreign languages in the 1950s and 60s. It includes 36 color photographs by famous Soviet photographers K. Neubert and T. Bakman, who captured the architectural sights and everyday life of the capital of the USSR. The authentic autographs of two legendary space explorers, left on the album pages, give special value to this copy. Vladimir Komarov's autograph on the album pages is dated March 17, 1965— two years before the tragic death of the cosmonaut during the Soyuz-1 test.

The album is accompanied by original photographs of astronauts taken at the Baikonur cosmodrome in the early 1960s.