N. S. Khrushchov, Yuri Gagarin and His Wife Valentina
The flower-bedecked car drives Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers N. S. Khrushchov, space pilot Yuri Gagarin and his wife Valentina through the streets of Moscow towards the Red Square.
Photo by V. Bliokh
V. Bliokh
Gagarin Greeted By Polish Leaders
Soviet spaceman Yuri Gagarin (left) meets Chairman of the Polish Council of State Aleksander Zawadski (right) and Polish Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka during his visit to Warsaw in 1961.
Camera Press Ltd.
Cosmonauts Conference
Picture by Radio • London Bureau
Moscow USSR: A Soviet Radio correspondent is seen talking to cosmonauts P. Belyaev (left) A. Leonov (centre) on their arrival at the cosmodrome after the historic flight in the Vokshod-2, in which and out of which ...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Cosmonaut Major Gherman Titov
Russian - 2nd Spaceman Major Gherman Titov with his wife, after whisking through space for 24 hours in a 4 1/2 (...) spaceship.
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Gagarin Couple
Space Hero Yuri Gagarin and his wife at Ratmalana airport yesterday.
The Times of Ceylon Press
"He Is 'Trapped' in the Jewel Tower"
London turned out to give Yuri Gagarin another storming welcome today (13-7-1961) – and the enthusiasm of it kept him a prisoner in the Tower of London for ten minutes. Gagarin had to stay in the Jewel Tower until care arrived because the excited ...
Daily Mirror
London Gave Yuri Gagarin a Great Reception
London gave Yuri Gagarin the world's first man to space a great reception today (11-7-1961). There were cheers and applause at London Airport. And more cheers as the twenty-seven-year-old Soviet spaceman drove to the Russian Embassy in London befo...
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