Yuri Gagarin
Astronaut
1934 – 1968
Who was Yuri Gagarin?
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour. Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but he served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission. Gagarin later became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow, which was later named after him. Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed.
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- Born
- Mar 9, 1934
Klushino - Also known as
- Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, Jurij Aleksejevič Gagarin
- Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
- Juri Gagarin
- Yuriy Gagarin
- Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Valentina Goryacheva
(1957/11/07 - 1968/03/27)
- Valentina Goryacheva
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Russian
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Profession
- Employment
- Lieutenant, Soviet Air Forces
(1957/11/05 - )
- Lieutenant, Soviet Air Forces
- Lived in
- Smolensk Oblast
- Klushino
- Died
- Mar 27, 1968
Kirzhach - Resting place
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis
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on July 23, 2013
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