Valentin Petrovich Viktorov (1909 to 1981) designed this poster in 1961, after Yuri Gagarin's orbital flight in April of that year. Viktorov had produced posters for Izogiz and Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo since the 1930s. Poster House in New York holds a copy of this poster.
On the poster
A Soviet rocket with an orange hammer and sickle on its nose cone climbs toward a vast blue sphere, against a roiling sky of burnt orange and deep maroon. White light-streaks cross the background. At the lower right, three lines of bold teal-green Cyrillic slab-serif: "ПОКОРИТЕЛЯМ / ВСЕЛЕННОЙ / СЛАВА!" (Glory to the Conquerors of the Universe).
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.





