Painting by Takhir Salakhov "For You, Humanity!" (1961), reproduced on the stamp of Azerbaijan in 2011 on the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first flight into space.

On April 12, 2011, a postal block "50th anniversary of the first manned space flight" appeared in Azerbaijan. The block includes three stamps, on the central postage miniature there is a fantastic drawing - a naked man and woman flying among the stars, holding glowing balls symbolizing the "light of the future" in their hands.

The stamp reproduces the picture of the Azerbaijani artist Tahir Salakhov "For You, Humanity!", created in 1961.

The first sketches of the painting are dated 1959. By coincidence, the picture was shown for the first time on April 12, 1961, on the day of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space.

In the Soviet magazine "Technics - Youth" this picture was called "Two", the reproduction was placed on the cover of the magazine for February 1974. Leningrader Andrei Nadirov dedicated poems to this picture, ending with lines: "When Romeo and Juliet // We are given the primordial light, // And in the galactic surf, // Where there is no abyss, no heights, // Always the top of the world - TWO, // Whose life - the coming one. "

Painting "For You, Humanity!" for a long time it was kept in storerooms, only in 2008 it was shown again to the general public. It happened at the Venice Biennale.