On April 12, 1961, the cosmic era of mankind began to read: Yuri Gagarin flew into space on the Vostok ship.
For 108 minutes, Yuri Gagarin flew around the earth and landed near the Volga city of Engels, in the Saratov region. At an altitude of several kilometers, Gagarin catapulted and made a soft landing with a parachute near the descent vehicle.
After the flight was over, Gagarin's smile became known to the whole world, and the astronaut himself was awarded the highest awards of the USSR. Also in his honor renamed the streets and erected monuments in many cities of the Soviet Union.
The first cosmonaut of the planet was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, and the day of his flight became a national holiday - Cosmonautics Day, starting April 12, 1962.
Yuri Gagarin and his doubler German Titov go to the launch pad of the Baikonur cosmodrome, April 12, 1961
Before the launch of the spacecraft, April 12, 1961
The start of the spacecraft. The first man on earth goes into space
Immediately after landing in the Saratov region. At the landing site, Gagarin was presented with his first award for space flight - the medal “For the Development of Virgin Lands”
Photo of the Soviet ship “Vostok-1”
Yuri Gagarin - the first man to be in space - parachuted down from a height of 7000 meters
Students of Moscow institutes at a spontaneous demonstration in the Manezh Square area in Moscow, April 12, 1961
“All to space!” People in the center of Moscow gathered for spontaneously organized rallies, April 12, 1961
On April 12, 1961 in Moscow it was also not spring-like cold and it was snowing
Meeting of Yuri Gagarin at Vnukovo Airport, Moscow, April 14, 1961
A motorcade with the first cosmonaut follows from Vnukovo, April 14, 1961. Yuri Gagarin and Nikita Khrushchev ride ahead in the open “Seagull” decorated with flowers.
So Muscovites met Yuri Gagarin, traveling from the airport, April 14, 1961
At a reception in the Kremlin, April 29, 1961. Yuri Gagarin with his wife Valentina and Nikita Khrushchev with Nina Petrovna - his wife
The first Soviet cosmonaut is in the limelight. Guests of the II Moscow International Film Festival Italian actresses Gina Lollobrigida (left) Mariza Merlini (second from right) and Culture Minister Ekaterina Furtseva during a reception at the USSR Ministry of Culture, July 17, 1961
On post-flight rest in Crimea, August 17, 1961
With delegates to the XXII Congress of the CPSU, September 2, 1961
Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin, German Titov and Pavel Popovich (right) in the dressing room at Arkady Raikin, October 1, 1961
Yuri Gagarin, June 1, 1962
Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova and actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov in the studio of the Central Television Studio, June 1, 1963
Yuri Gagarin with his wife and cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov (left) on vacation in Sochi, November 20, 1964
May 5, 1963
Together with my family on vacation in Crimea, August 19, 1965. This girl in a headscarf is now the general director of the Moscow Kremlin State Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve
Together with cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, October 8, 1966
Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Alexey Leonov after a training flight in a helicopter, April 1, 1966
Solid owner of the black Volga, September 27, 1967
They say he really wanted to fly into space again
Yuri Gagarin before the flight
After the flight was over, Gagarin's smile became known to the whole world.
Gagarin with his wife
After the flight, Yuri Gagarin went immediately to many countries
Astronaut reports on his flight
Yuri Gagarin received many awards
Gagarin at the parade
Astronaut with children
Post-flight rest. On vacation in the summer of 1961
