Description: Yuri Gagarin Biography (BIG BOOK) On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in world history to fly into outer space. The Vostok launch vehicle with the Vostok-1 spacecraft carrying Gagarin was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome located in the Kyzyl-Orda region of Kazakhstan. After 108 minutes of flight, Gagarin successfully landed in the Saratov region, not far from Engels. April 12, 1961, the day of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space was declared a holiday - Cosmonautics Day. The first space flight aroused great interest all over the world, and Yuri Gagarin himself became a world celebrity. At the invitation of foreign governments and public organizations, he visited about 30 countries. Go to the section "# Foreign Visits" The first cosmonaut had many trips inside the Soviet Union. In subsequent years, Gagarin led a large social and political work, graduated from the Air Force Engineering Academy named after Professor N. Ye. Zhukovsky, worked at the Cosmonaut Training Center and prepared for a new flight into space. Go to the section "# Further life" On March 27, 1968, Yuri Gagarin died in a plane crash near the village of Novoselovo, Kirzhachsky district, Vladimir region, while performing a training flight on a MiG-15UTI aircraft under the guidance of an experienced instructor V.S.Seregin. The causes and circumstances of the plane crash remain unclear to this day.
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Location: Zaporizhia
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Country/Region of Manufacture: Russian Federation
Theme: Astronauts & Space Travel
Space Program: Russian & Soviet Program
Type: USSR
Year: 1978
