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The first cosmonaut on holiday, hunt, costume party and with children.

April 12, 1961: The first manned space flight and the latest global success of our country. And in life, and after the death of Yuri Gagarin's sculptured image of the ideal man, the symbol of communism. We tried to get away from these stamps. In our material, there are no official pictures and shaking hands with the leaders of the party and the friendly countries, standard cards in a suit and dress uniform, and only 12 pictures from the life of the common man by the name of Yuri Gagarin.




Post-flight rest. On vacation in the Crimea, summer 1961.



Morning exercise at Star City in the summer of 1961.



With his wife and daughter. Photo taken in the summer of 1959 Orenburg. A few months later, Yuri Gagarin write a statement of acceptance to the group of astronauts.



In zagranpoezdki. After the flight of Gagarin visited numerous countries. One of the visits he paid to Helsinki in the summer of 1961.



Physical culture. Two years after Gagarin's flight is still in good shape, summer 1963.



With the car. A gift of the French company Matra: sports car Matra Djet. The photo was taken at the monument "To the Conquerors of Space" in the summer of 1965.



On the hunt. The photo in the style of "Hunters at Rest", the autumn of 1966. Six months later, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov (pictured right) was killed in an unsuccessful landing ship "Soyuz-1».



Amateur Photographer. Rest the fall of 1965.



Post-flight rest. On vacation in the summer of 1961.



With prey. Successful hunting for ducks in autumn 1966.



At the party. Costume party at Star City in honor of the new astronauts spring of 1965. A month earlier, Alexei Leonov (right) made the first spacewalk.



With daughters. Fall 1966: Yuri Gagarin with his daughters Galya and Lena. Since 2001, Elena Gagarin headed Museum "Moscow Kremlin".