Book of verse, 1962

Included in the book: Slava nebesnym brat'iam! Stikhi i pesni o sovetskikh kosmonavtakh [Glory to our heavenly brothers! Verse and songs of Soviet Cosmonauts]. Izdatel'stvo «Iskusstvo». Moskva. 1962.

Cover includes photographs of Yuri Gagarin, Gherman Titov, Andriyan Nikolayev, and Pavel Popovich (the first four Soviets in space).

First edition, published the year after Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space: ten poems (including work by Veronika... Tushnova and Vera Inber) and four songs - 'Fourteen minutes to liftoff', 'The blue planet. March of the Soviet Cosmonauts' (written by Oleg Sokolov - Tobolsky, a Red Army officer, and first sung by the cosmonaut Pavel Popovich), 'Before the long road' by Matvey Blanter, and 'Cosmonauts' by Vano Muradeli - all written in praise of cosmonauts.

According to the publication details on the final page, the book was typeset and ready to print on August 21, 1962, less than a week after Popovich's Vostok 4 mission had landed back on Earth.