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GAGARIN'S FLIGHT MAP Москва; Ленинграц. [Moscow; Leningrad].
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GAGARIN'S FLIGHT MAP
Москва; Ленинграц. [Moscow; Leningrad]. Printed flight map, 50 x 35¼ inches, notations in colored pencil, some minor tears at folds. [WITH]: SHONIN, GEORGY, Самые Перые [The Very First], Moscow, 1976 AND: SHONIN ET AL, На Цорогах Вселенной [On the Roads of the Universe], Kiev, 1988. Together two volumes, 8vo.
PROVENANCE: Cosmonaut Georgy S. Shonin; Sotheby's Russian Space History, 1996, lot 144.
GAGARIN'S FLIGHT MAP, GIVEN BY HIM TO GEORGY SHONIN. A letter by Shonin in Russian accompanying this lot reads in part: [trans] "ON A FLIGHT DAY IN MARCH 1968, I ARRIVED FOR MY ASSIGNMENT WITHOUT MY FLIGHT MAP. THERE WAS NO TIME FOR ME TO CHART THE COURSE ON A NEW MAP AND YURI GAVE ME HIS OWN MAP. I WAS NOT QUICK ENOUGH IN RETURNING HIS CHART TO HIM: GAGARIN PERISHED A FEW DAYS LATER. THE COURSE ON THE MAP WAS IN YURI'S HAND. THE PLACE OF HIS DEATH AT NOVOESLOVO WAS MARKED BY ME [on the map] SEVERAL YEARS LATER."
PROVENANCE: Cosmonaut Georgy S. Shonin; Sotheby's Russian Space History, 1996, lot 144.
GAGARIN'S FLIGHT MAP, GIVEN BY HIM TO GEORGY SHONIN. A letter by Shonin in Russian accompanying this lot reads in part: [trans] "ON A FLIGHT DAY IN MARCH 1968, I ARRIVED FOR MY ASSIGNMENT WITHOUT MY FLIGHT MAP. THERE WAS NO TIME FOR ME TO CHART THE COURSE ON A NEW MAP AND YURI GAVE ME HIS OWN MAP. I WAS NOT QUICK ENOUGH IN RETURNING HIS CHART TO HIM: GAGARIN PERISHED A FEW DAYS LATER. THE COURSE ON THE MAP WAS IN YURI'S HAND. THE PLACE OF HIS DEATH AT NOVOESLOVO WAS MARKED BY ME [on the map] SEVERAL YEARS LATER."