Word: orenburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skilled trade; his record was good enough to get him into an "industrial technicum" (a sort of technical junior college) at Saratov on the Volga. While there, he learned to fly at the Saratov Aero Club and was admitted to the Soviet air force's cadet academy at Orenburg. He graduated with top honors in 1957 and married a pretty medical graduate, Valentina Ivanovna. They have two children, both girls: Elena, 2, and Galya, one month. It was all so pat and proper and bourgeois that White Russian refugees from South America to Tyrone, Pa., recalling that Gagarin...