- Year
- 1978
- By
- Izdatelstvo Plakat (Publisher)
- Published
- Moscow: Izdatelstvo Plakat.
- Edition
- Russian. Set of 38 postcards, first edition.
- Ciancone
- N/A.
- Shelf
- R1
- Catalog
- Catalog E · Miscellanea
Set of thirty-eight postcards, each a color photographic portrait of a Soviet cosmonaut in flight gear, ordered by mission from Yuri Gagarin’s 1961 flight through the Soyuz 24 crew, Vyacheslav Zudov and Valery Rozhdestvensky, in 1977.
Photography by Yu. Ustinov, Yu. Zharov, and A. Mokletsov; consultant Colonel A. Kuklin; design by D. Zuskov. The cover reproduces the Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR medal, awarded to each flyer alongside Hero of the Soviet Union.
Plakat reissued and expanded this series repeatedly as the cosmonaut corps grew, to 50 cards and eventually 58 by the mid-1980s; this is the original 1978 edition of 38, printed in a run of 470,000 sets.