SOVIET-ERA POSTCARD AND STAMPS of Vostok and Soyuz cosmonauts. Featured in the circa 1977 postage stamps are cosmonauts Andriyan Nikolayev [first Turkic person in space], Pavel Popovich [first Ukrainian in space], Viktor Gorbatko and Yuri Glazkov and composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, is on the far left of the postcard.
The cancellation postmark originated from Leningrad and was sent to a person in West Germany, extending "Best wishes from Leningrad".
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