Yuri Gagarin signed

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Valentin Yershov

Above: signed cover from Valentin Yershov

Born on..	21 Aug. 1928
Join Cosmonaut Team in:	June 1967
As...	Physicist
Left Cosmonaut Team in	August 1974
Identity revealed at...	Late 1988

Engineering diploma in aircraft engineering from Moscow Aviation Institute, 1953; scientist at the Academy of Sciences; was selected as cosmonaut on 22.05.1967 (AN-1); OKP (cosmonaut basic training): 5/67 - 8/68; he was involved in the Soviet Lunar Landing Program; he locked out from cosmonaut training by TsPK-Director Beregowoy, because Yershov refused to become a member of the Communist Party; later Senior Scientist, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow; in 1982 he resigned from active duty and became a pensioner; he died on complications of cancer in 1998.

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