The poster marks Yuri Gagarin's orbital flight in the Vostok 1 capsule on 12 April 1961. Boris Feoktistovich Berezovsky (1910 to 1977) is credited as the designer.
On the poster
A worker in white overalls stands arms-wide on top of the Vostok rocket, with a vast red Soviet flag bearing the hammer-and-sickle state emblem filling the upper field behind him. White speed-lines radiate across a golden-yellow ground. At lower left a sun-burst cartouche marks the date "12 АПРЕЛЯ 1961". To the right, four lines of bold Cyrillic: "К ПЛАНЕТАМ / ЧЕЛОВЕКУ / ПУТЬ / ОТКРЫТ!" (The way to the planets is open to mankind!).
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.





