Pojechali
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On April 12, 1961, just before Yuri Gagarin entered the Vostok 1 capsule and became the first human to enter space, he said: Поехали! An informal Russian phrase freely translated as ‘Let’s go!’.
In Dutch, you write Поехали as Pojechali, and this is the name I chose for my holding. Be aware that you should pronounce the first ‘o’ as an ‘a’ in Russian. You say pajéchali.
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