Yuri Gagarin - 50 years of space flight (102 photos)

Today is Cosmonautics Day - a memorable date celebrated on April 12, established to commemorate the first manned flight into space.
This first person was Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin. What was he like? Photos of an ordinary Soviet person from childhood to the moment of death.

Pioneer Jura

Yuri Gagarin (second from right in the first row of musicians) is a trumpeter in an amateur orchestra of a vocational school in the town of Lyubertsy near Moscow.

Young Yuri Gagarin

The dugout where the Gagarin family lived during the war

House of the Gagarins in the village of Klushino

Young Gagarin in the anatomy classroom

Statement from a vocational school student Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin

Gagarin is a student at the Saratov Industrial College

Young Gagarin

Sergeant Yuri Gagarin

Yu.A. Gagarin - cadet of the Saratov Aviation School, independent training flights

At the Saratov flying club

Smile of Yuri Gagarin

Gagarin exercising

At the airport

Yuri Gagarin in the cockpit

Yu.A. Gagarin in the cockpit

Yuri Gagarin in his office

Yu.A. Gagarin in his office in Star City

Yu.A. Gagarin and S.P. Korolev at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda"

Yu.A. Gagarin and S.P. Korolev at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", photo 2

Before the start

Yuri Gagarin in the ejection seat

Yu.A. Gagarin at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", photo 3

Gagarin in a spacesuit

Gagarin in a spacesuit, photo 2

Back-up cosmonaut German Titov

The peasant's son became a pilot and then the first cosmonaut on the planet

Before the start, on the road

Before the launch - the Chief Designer gives farewell words to the First Cosmonaut

Before boarding the spacecraft

Before boarding the spacecraft, photo 2

Yu.A. Gagarin, the world's first cosmonaut

Yuri Gagarin before takeoff

Gagarin in a spacesuit, photo 3

Gagarin in a spacesuit, photo 4

Gagarin in a spacesuit, photo 5

The actual layout of the Vostok space system

Spaceship "Vostok-1" according to the American press

Spaceship "Vostok-1" according to the Soviet press

Vostok launch vehicle in Kaluga

Launch "Vostok-1"

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People celebrate the first manned space flight

People celebrate the first human flight into space, photo 2

The country greeted the TASS news about Yuri Gagarin's flight with joy and pride

Gagarin goes to report to the Soviet government in Vnukovo

Yu.A. Gagarin reports to state leaders on the completion of the flight. Photo by RSC Energia

Meeting Yuri Gagarin

Meeting Yuri Gagarin

Meeting Yuri Gagarin

Congratulations to Yuri Gagarin

Yu.A. Gagarin and N.S. Khrushchev on the podium of the Mausoleum. Photo by RSC Energia

Road to space. Notes of a USSR pilot-cosmonaut

Gagarin in Great Britain

Yuri Gagarin and British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan

Valentina and Yuri Gagarin during one of their trips abroad

During one of my trips abroad

During one of my trips abroad, photo 2

Meeting Yuri Gagarin, photo 5

Speech by Yuri Gagarin

Messenger of Peace

Gagarin, Karlovy Vary

Gina Lolobrigida and Yuri Gagarin during the II MIFF in 1961

Memorial plaque in honor of Gagarin at NASA

Yuri Gagarin - publications in publications

Yuri Gagarin - publications in publications, photo 2

Yuri Gagarin - publications in publications, photo 3

Yuri Gagarin - publications in publications, photo 4

Yuri Gagarin and Fidel Castro

Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev

Colonel Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova

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In the cockpit before the last flight. Photo by RSC Energia

Funeral of Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Seregin

Graves of Yu.A. Gagarin and V.S. Seregina in the Kremlin wall

Rare photographs of Yuri Gagarin (did not appear in the Soviet press):

Yuri Gagarin and Soviet models

Yuri Gagarin in the cockpit of an airliner owned by British European Airways

Yuri Gagarin and British actress Valerie Hobson

Yuri Gagarin and British police escort

Yuri Gagarin is a Hero of the Soviet Union and simply a beloved person.