People of Russia

Yuri Gagarin (09/03/1934 – 03/27/1968). Born March 9, 1934 in Gzhatsk (now Gagarin) Gzhatsk (now Gagarin) district of Smolensk region in the family farmer. Father – Alexei Ivanovich Gagarin. Mother – Anna Timofeevna Gagarin. Marital status: wife – Valentina Gagarina (nee Goryachev).

Children: daughter, Helen (April 10, 1959) and Galina (7 March 1961). Education: 1951 – vocational school № 10 in Lyubertsy (Moscow region), specialty molder-leteyschika (Hons) in 1951 – a school for young workers in Lyubertsy (Moscow Region), 1955 – Saratov Industrial College (with honors) 1955 – the Saratov Flying Club; 1957 – First Chkalovsk Air Force Pilot School named Voroshilov in the city of Orenburg (first class) 1968 – Military-Engineering Academy N.E . Zhukovsky in Moscow (with honors). The service in the Soviet Army: Since 1955 – in the Soviet Army.

From 1957 to enroll in cosmonaut served as a fighter pilot in fighter aviation regiment of the Northern Fleet. Were of "military pilot class 1". Space Activities: Since 1960 – in an astronaut (Order of Commander Air Force Enrollment of 3 March 1960; actually from March 11, 1960). April 12, 1961 committed the world's first flight into space on a spaceship "Vostok" lasting 1 hour 48 minutes. On May 23, 1961 – Commander of the cosmonaut corps. On December 20, 1963 – Deputy Chief of Cosmonaut Training Centre. Valet pilot spacecraft "Soyuz" (Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov) at start April 23, 1967. Community Activities: Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 6 th and 7 th. Member of the Komsomol Central Committee (elected by the 14 th and 15 th Congresses of the Komsomol). Head of the department of astronautics freelance newspaper "Red Star" (from 1964).

President of the Soviet-Cuban friendship. Honorary member of the Society "Finland – the USSR." With the mission of peace and friendship has visited many countries in the world.

Honours: Hero of the Soviet Union (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of 14 April 1961). Hero of Socialist Labor of Czechoslovakia Socialist Republic (Decree of the President of Czechoslovakia on April 28, 1961). Hero of Socialist Labor of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (Council of Ministers of Bulgaria on May 23, 1961).

Hero of Labor of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Awarded the Order of Lenin (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on April 14, 1961), the Order of Georgi Dimitrov (Council of Ministers of Bulgaria on May 23, 1961), the Order of the Grunwald Cross of I degree "(Resolution of the National Council of Poland from July 20, 1961) Order of the Bay of Pigs "(Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba on July 24, 1961), the Order of the Banner of the Hungarian People's Republic of I grade diamonds (Decree of the Presidium of Hungary August 21, 1961), the Order of the Nile Necklace" (Decree of the President of the United Arab Republic on January 31, 1962), Grand Cordon of the African stars (Decree of the President of Liberia from February 6, 1962), the Order of Karl Marx (GDR), the Star II degree (Indonesia).

He was awarded the title of "Pilot-cosmonaut of USSR" (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on 14 April 1961). He was awarded a gold badge of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Finland (decision of the Party Central Committee on June 30, 1961), Gold Medal of the British Interplanetary Society communications (decision of the Council of the society from the June 11, 1961), Medal for Merit in the field of aeronautics, "Air Force of Brazil ( order of the Commander Air Force of Brazil on July 29, 1961), commemorative gold medal of the Government of Austro (decision of the Federal Government of Austria on May 10, 1962), a gold medal Tsiolkovsky Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Medal of de Lavaux (FAI), a gold medal and an honorary Diploma of International Association "Man in Space", a gold medal and an honorary diploma of the Italian Association space, a gold medal "For outstanding contrast, and an honorary diploma of the Royal Swedish Aeroclub, big gold medal and diploma of FAI, the gold medal of the city of Saint-Denis (France), Medal Columba (, Italy).

Awarded the prize Galaber aeronautics.Honorary citizen of the Russian cities of Kaluga (Kaluga Executive Committee decision of 13 June 1961), Novocherkassk, Smolensk, Saratov, Ukrainian cities Vinnitsa, Sevastopol, the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait, the Bulgarian cities of Sofia, Pernik, Plovdiv (decision Plovdinskogo City Council on May 27, 1961) , the Greek city of Athens (Athens municipality decision on February 12, 1962), the Cypriot city of Famagusta, Limassol, the French town of Saint-Denis, the Czech town of Teplice Trenchaske, the French town of Saint-Denis. Honorary member of International Academy of Astronautics (since 1966). Life Member Club of Space Explorers Department of Physics University in Lucknow, India (decision of the Council of the club on November 30, 1961).

Honorary Chief Liberian Kpelle tribe (decision of the council of elders from the tribe of February 6, 1962). In the eternal possession were handed the golden keys to the gate of the Egyptian cities of Cairo and Alexandria. Gagarin was named a crater on the Moon and the asteroid (1772 Gagarin). Publications: The book "The Road to Space" (1961). Articles "Star Time" ("Red Star" on May 1, 1961), "you will find air ocean" ("Komsomolskaya Pravda" dated July 9, 1961), "Metal and character cast in labor" ("Red Star" of 14 October 1961), "Forward, always forward" (co-authored with G. Titov, Pravda, April 12, 1962), "A word to the writers" ("Literary Russia" on 12 April 1963), "Poetry Star Heights "(" Komsomolskaya Pravda "on 10 May 1963)," Nordic flying over the waves "(" Komsomolskaya Pravda "of October 2, 1963)," storming the heavens "(Izvestia, October 4, 1963)," Double voskrevshy (Young Communist ", 1964, № 3)," There are flames "(" Komsomolskaya Pravda "on 18 August 1964)," Our ranks are growing "(" Red Star "on April 11, 1965)," Time of communism The time space "(" Aerospace ", 1967, № 4)," Steps to the Universe "(a collection APN" in 2017, 1968).

Tragically died March 27, 1968 in a plane crash near the village of Novoselovo Kirzhachsky Vladimir region when performing a training flight on a plane. He was buried near the Kremlin wall on Red Square in Moscow.