Gagarin

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Russian Гага́рин (Gagárin).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡəˈɡɑːɹɪn/

Proper noun

Gagarin

  1. a transliteration of the Russian surname Гага́рин (Gagárin).
    1. Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut and first man in space.
      • 2021 April 12, Gregory McNamee, “This Soviet cosmonaut was the first human in orbit — fueling the space race”, in CNN[1]:
        Khrushchev’s answer came 60 years ago, on April 12, 1961, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin circled the Earth aboard a spacecraft called Vostok 1.

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