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

Today is the Day of Cosmonautics - a memorable date, celebrated on 12 April to mark the installed first manned flight into space.
This was the first man, Yuri Gagarin. And how was it? Photos of ordinary Soviet citizen from childhood until death.

Pioneer Jura



Yuri Gagarin (first row, second from right musicians) - trumpeter in the amateur orchestra vocational school in the Moscow suburb of Lyubertsy



Young Yuri Gagarin



Dugout, where during the war the family lived Gagarin



House Gagarin Klushino



Young Gagarin in his study of anatomy



Statement of vocational school student Yuri Gagarin



Gagarin - a student of the Saratov Industrial Technical



Young Gagarin



Sergeant Yuri Gagarin



YA Gagarin - Saratov Aviation College student, independent training flights



In Saratov flying club



Yuri Gagarin's smile



Gagarin on fizzaryadke



At the airport



Yuri Gagarin in the cockpit



YA Gagarin in the cockpit



Yuri Gagarin in his office



YA Gagarin in his office at Star City



YA Gagarin and SP Korolyov at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda»



YA Gagarin and SP Korolyov at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", photo 2



Before the start of



Yuri Gagarin in the ejection seat



YA Gagarin at Baikonur. The newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", photo 3



Gagarin in spacesuit



Gagarin in space suit, photo 2



Understudy cosmonaut Gherman Titov



Peasant's son became a pilot and then first cosmonaut



Before the start, on the road



Before the start - Chief Designer admonishes the First cosmonaut



Before boarding the spacecraft



Before boarding the spacecraft, photo 2



YA Gagarin world's first cosmonaut



Yuri Gagarin before takeoff



Gagarin in space suit, photo 3



Gagarin in space suit, photo 4



Gagarin in space suit, photo 5



Genuine layout space system "East»



Spaceship "Vostok-1" according to the American press



Spaceship "Vostok-1" according to the Soviet press



Booster "East" in Kaluga



Start "Vostok-1»



People celebrate the first manned space flight



People celebrate the first manned space flight, photo 2



With joy and pride of the country met to TASS news about Yuri Gagarin



Gagarin is to report to the Soviet government at Vnukovo



YA Gagarin reports the heads of state of the completion of the flight. Photo RSC "Energy»



Meeting Yuri Gagarin



Meeting Yuri Gagarin



Meeting Yuri Gagarin



Congratulations to Yuri Gagarin



YA Gagarin and NS Khrushchev at the Mausoleum. Photo RSC "Energy»



The road into space. Notes of a Soviet cosmonaut



Gagarin in the UK



Yuri Gagarin and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan



Valentina and Yuri Gagarin during a foreign travel



During one of his trips abroad



During one of his trips abroad, photo 2



Meeting Yuri Gagarin, photo 5



Speech by Yuri Gagarin



Messenger of Peace



Gagarin, Carlsbad



Gina Lollobrigida and Yuri Gagarin II International Film Festival in 1961



Plaque in honor of Gagarin NASA



Yuri Gagarin - publications in



Yuri Gagarin - publications in, photo 2



Yuri Gagarin - publications in, photo 3



Yuri Gagarin - publications in, photo 4



Yuri Gagarin and Fidel Castro













































Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolyov





Colonel Yuri Gagarin



Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova



In the cockpit before the last flight. Photo RSC "Energy»



The funeral of Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Seregin



Graves YA Gagarin and VS Seregina in the Kremlin wall

Rare photos of Yuri Gagarin (not appeared in the Soviet press):



Yuri Gagarin and soveskie model



Yuri Gagarin in the cabin of an airliner belonging to British European Airways



Yuri Gagarin and British actress Valerie Hobson



Yuri Gagarin and the British police escort



Yuri Gagarin - Hero of the Soviet Union and a beloved man.