Gagarin biography

Gagarin Yuri, he was born on March 9, his mother, Anna Timofeevna, and father, Alexei Ivanovich, were ordinary rural workers from the village of Klushino Gzhatsky District. In May, at the same time with his studies at the Yuri school, he entered the Lyubertsy evening school of working youth. In the city, he becomes a student of the Saratov Industrial College.

It was in those years that he became interested in aviation and on October 25, he first came to the Saratov flying club. In June, Gagarin graduated with honors from the Saratov Industrial College, in July - made the first independent flight by plane of the Yak and graduated from the Saratov flying club on October 10 of the same year. Yuri Alekseevich was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army and sent to the city of Orenburg to study at the 1st Chkalovsky Military Aviation School of K.

pilots named after K. in marriage two daughters were born in the marriage: Elena-now the director of the Moscow Kremlin museum-reserve and Galina, who became an economist, professor of the Russian Economic University named after At the end of Gagarin, he arrived at his destination, the fighter aviation regiment of the Northern Fleet. Gagarin wrote a statement asking him to enroll him in a group of candidates for astronauts.

Vershinin he was enrolled in a group of candidates for astronauts, and from March 11 he began training. Both the head of the Soviet space project, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, and the heads of the defense department of the CPSU Central Committee, who oversaw the space developments, and the heads of the Ministry of General Machine Building and the Ministry of Defense perfectly understood that the first astronaut should become a person of our state, who worthy of their homeland in the international arena.

After all minutes, the astronaut landed near the village of Smelyovka in the Saratov region. These minutes were destined to become starry in the biography of Gagarin. Two days later, Moscow greeted the hero of Cosmos. A crowded rally dedicated to the implementation of the world's first space flight was held on Red Square. Thousands of people wanted to see Gagarin with their own eyes.

Already at the end of April, Yuri Gagarin went on his first foreign trip. Gagarin visited dozens of countries, met with thousands of people. Kings and presidents, political figures and scientists, artists and musicians were considered to meet with him for the honor of the honor. Yuri Alekseevich quickly became ill with star disease, and more and more time began to devote work at the Center for Cosmonaut training.

Since May 23, Gagarin - commander of the cosmonauts detachment. And already in the fall of G. Zhukovsky, to get higher education. The following years were very tense in Gagarin's life. Work on the preparation of new flights into space and study at the academy took a lot of time and effort. Gagarin was appointed deputy head of the Cosmonauts training center. For flight preparation, he returned to the city in those years in the Soviet Union, the implementation of the Lunar Program began.

Gagarin was one of those who began to prepare for the flight on the moon. It is easy to guess how he wanted to go first to our eternal companion. But this was still far away. So far, it was necessary to teach the Soyuz ship to fly. The first test flight in the manned version was scheduled for April. The fact that the main pilot of the ship became mosquitoes does not mean at all that it was better prepared.

When this issue was being resolved, Gagarin decided to “protect” and not risk his life. Everyone knows how the flight of the Soyuz -1 ship ended. Speaking at a mourning rally dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Komarov, his understudy Yuri Gagarin promised that the astronauts would teach the “unions” to fly. In the end, it happened. But this was done without Yuri Gagarin.

Continued to prepare for new flights into space.

With great difficulty, he achieved permission to independently pilot the plane. And the last ... The plane crashed near the village of Novoselovo, Kirzhach district of the Vladimir region. The circumstances of that disaster are not completely clarified. But in order not to happen that day, only one thing is clear - the first cosmonaut of planet Earth Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin died.

In the USSR, national mourning was declared.