YURI GAGARIN SIGNED SPUTNIK 4/5 POSTER
THE DOGS WHO PAVED THE WAY FOR HUMANS IN SPACE.
Photographic poster, 300 x 398 mm, [Moscow, 1961].

Poster celebrating the 1961 Sputnik 4 and Sputnik 5 launches, with an image the dog Chernushka, who would fly (and return safely) on Sputnik 4 and of Zvyozdochka, nicknamed by Gagarin, who would fly successfully on Sputnik 5—the last test before Gagarin himself would fly in his historic flight. The poster bears the date of the Sputnik 4 launch: March 9, 1961. Gagarin SIGNS and INSCRIBES, in Cyrillic: ['This is a real historical event. / Gagarin.']