Pilot Marina Popovich
On June 10, 1964 pilot Marina Popovich, the wife of Pavel Popovich, Cosmonaut 4, reached the speed of nearly 600 km/h on a training jet plane during the closed circuit flight. Nobody in the world has attained such a speed on such plans (with a fly...
S. Lyubimov
Yuri Gagarin Reports by Telephone
Yuri Gagarin, the world's first space pilot, reports by telephone to Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, N. S. Khrushchov on the successful completion of his space flight.
Novosti Press Agency
Yuri Gagarin at C.P.S.U. Congress
The first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin among delegates in the conference hall of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.
Photo by M. Kuleshov
M. Kuleshov