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Created page with "== Early Life == Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born on 9 March 1934 in the village of Klushino, near Gzhatsk (renamed Gagarin in 1968 after his death), in the Smolensk Oblast, central Russia. His parents worked on a collective farm—collective farming being a prevalent form of agricultural practice in the Soviet Union. Image:Detail-37285.jpg|thumb|center|A photograph of the village of Klushino, with its traditional wooden houses and wide, open..."
