Machu Picchu is the hispanicized spellingof the Quechua name Machu Pikchu. It means old peak (Quechua machu old + pikchu peak).
In April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's spacecraft was launched at 9:07, orbited Earth once and landed at 10:55 in the Soviet Union.
Yuri Andropov. Yuri Andropov, the son of a railway official, was born in Nagutskoye, in the Soviet Union. He trained as a water transport engineer and worked in the shipyards at Rybinsk. He was politically active and joined the Communist Party (CPSU). In 1940 Andropov was placed in charge of the Karelian peninsula.