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Apr 10, 2011 · Gzhatsk, the town where he spent much of his childhood, was even renamed Gagarin. Nikita Khrushchev hugged the cosmonaut as he stepped off the plane on his return to Moscow.
In the course of the war, Gzhatsk was occupied by the German Army from October 9, 1941 until March 6, 1943, when it was liberated by the troops of the Soviet Western Front. In 1968, the town was renamed Gagarin in honor of the first person to travel into space, Yuri Gagarin , who was born in 1934 in the nearby village of Klushino .
Gagarin was born 9 March 1934 in the village of Klushino, [1] in the Smolensk Oblast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, near Gzhatsk (renamed Gagarin in 1968 after his death). [2] His parents worked on a sovkhoz [3] —Aleksey Ivanovich Gagarin as a carpenter and Anna Timofeyevna Gagarina as a dairy farmer.
Apr 12, 2019 · Once called Gzhatsk, the town was officially renamed Gagarin to honor him when he died, and it has since become a shrine of sorts, with several historic homes, memorials, and museums that ...
May 26, 2024 · On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human being to travel into outer space and orbit the Earth. His single orbit in the Vostok 1 spacecraft was one of the defining moments of the 20th century, a major triumph for the Soviet Union that shook the world. Overnight, Gagarin became an international ...
The adjacent town of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin in 1968 in his honor. His parents, father Alexei Ivanovich Gagarin and mother Anna Timofeevna Gagarina, worked on a collective farm. [1] While manual laborers are described in official reports as "peasants," this may be an oversimplification if applied to his parents; his mother was reportedly a voracious reader, and his father a skilled carpenter.
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Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now in Smolensk Oblast, Russia), on 9 March 1934. Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin in 1968 in his honour. His parents, Alexey Ivanovich Gagarin and Anna Timofeyevna Gagarina, worked on a collective farm. [2] While manual workers are thought as "peasants," this may be too-simple if ...
