Yuri Gagarin
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Gagarin on a visit to Sweden, 1964
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 Soviet cosmonaut |
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Native name
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Юрий Гагарин |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Born | Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin 9 March 1934 Klushino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 27 March 1968 (aged 34) Novosyolovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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Resting place
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Kremlin Wall Necropolis |
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Other occupation
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Pilot |
| Rank | Colonel (Polkovnik), Soviet Air Forces |
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Time in space
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1 hour, 48 minutes |
| Selection | Soviet Air Force Group 1 |
| Missions | Vostok 1 |
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Mission insignia
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| Memorial to Gagarin and Seregin at crash location | |
 Memorial obelisk photo
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Memorial obelisk closeup photo
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Coordinates 56°02′48″N 39°01′35″E / 56.04664°N 39.0265°E
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин; IPA: [ˈjʉrʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Russian 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 (which ended in a fatal crash). 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. The Yuri Gagarin Medal is awarded in his honor.
Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino, near Gzhatsk (renamed Gagarin in 1968 after his death), on 9 March 1934. His parents worked on a collective farm: Alexey Ivanovich Gagarin as a carpenter and bricklayer, and Anna Timofeyevna Gagarina as a milkmaid. Yuri was the third of four children: older brother Valentin, older sister Zoya, and younger brother Boris.
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