SK-1

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SK-1 is an acronym of "Skafandr Kosmicheskiy" # 1 (Скафандр Космический = "spacesuit" or "diving suit for space") is a spacesuit that was developed specially for Yuri Gagarin. After his successful flight on the Vostok 1 spacecraft, spacesuits of the SK series were used for space flights of other cosmonauts on Vostok spacecraft.

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• Vita Germetika : A Brief History of Creating and Development of Soviet-Russian space suits - in Russian
• Museum of NPP Zvezda : photo of SK#1 space suit

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