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Yuri Gagarin Just Before the Take-off
Yuri Gagarin pictured in his space suit just before his take-off
Daily Mirror
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 Welcomed In Red Square, Moscow
Yuri Gagarin welcomed In Red Square, Moscow, after the first space flight, 1961 Photo by V. Malyshev
V. Malyshev
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
Yuri Gagarin at Moscow Film Festival
It was at the recent Moscow Film Festival that Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Union's first Hero of the Cosmos, met the "STARS". There were smiles of achievement on both sides as Gina Lollobrigida clasped hands with Gagarin. Gagarin has met scores of celebr...
Daily Mirror
Yuri Gagarin at an Exhibition of Designs
The first Soviet cosmonaut, Major Yuri Gagarin (left), at an exhibition of designs put forward for a monument to be erected in honour of the Soviet space victory.
Fotokhronika TASS
Soldiers marching beside the carriage carrying the urn containing the ashes of Gagarin for entombment in the Kremlin Wall. The world's first spaceman died in a jet crash recently.
United Press International (UK) Ltd.