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Petrov also said Gagarin had been baptised into the Russian Orthodox Church as a child, and a 2011 Foma magazine article quoted the rector of the Orthodox Church in Star City saying, "Gagarin baptized his elder daughter Yelena shortly before his space flight; and his family used to celebrate Christmas and Easter and keep icons in the house". [90]
Yuri Gagarin became the physical embodiment of conquering space. However, he otherwise had a simple earthly life with his beloved wife and two daughters. Who were they and what are they doing...
Zoya later married a man named Dmitri and gave birth to a daughter named Tamara. The baby’s godfather was Yuri Gagarin, age 13. The entire extended family lived in the same little house. In...
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Oct 23, 2015 · Yuri Gagarin's elder daughter, Elena Gagarina, speaks about the private life of her father. This interview, conducted by the British Council's then head of visual arts, Andrea Rose, in 2011 has been republished as a podcast and edited transcript.
- Early Life
- Gagarin Learns to Fly
- Gagarin Applies to Be A Cosmonaut
- Launch of Vostok 1
- Death
- Legacy
- Sources
born in Klushino, a small village west of Moscow in Russia (then known as the Soviet Union). Yuri was the third of four children and spent his childhood on a collective farm where his father, Alexey Ivanovich Gagarin, worked as a carpenter and bricklayer and his mother, Anna Timofeyevna Gagarina, worked as a milkmaid. In 1941, Yuri Gagarin was just...
In school, Yuri Gagarin loved both mathematics and physics. He continued on to a trade school, where he learned to be a metalworker and then went on to an industrial school. It was at the industrial school in Saratov that he joined a flying club. Gagarin learned quickly and was obviously at ease in a plane. He made his first solo flight in 1955. Si...
Yuri Gagarin was just one of 3,000 applicants to be the first Soviet cosmonaut. Out of this large pool of applicants, 20 were chosen in 1960 to be the Soviet Union's first cosmonauts; Gagarin was one of the 20. During the extensive physical and psychological testing required of the chosen cosmonaut trainees, Gagarin excelled at the tests while main...
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin boarded Vostok 1at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Although he was fully trained for the mission, no one knew if it was going to be a success or a failure. Gagarin was to be the very first human being in space, truly going where no man had gone before. Minutes before the launch, Gagarin gave a speech, which included: Vostok...
After his successful first flight into space, Gagarin never again was sent into space. Instead, he helped train future cosmonauts. On March 27, 1968, Gagarin was test-piloting a MiG-15 fighter jet when the plane plummeted to the ground, killing Gagarin instantly at the age of 34. For decades, people speculated about how Gagarin, an experienced pilo...
Nearly as soon as Gagarin's feet touched the ground back on Earth, he became an international hero. His accomplishment was known around the globe. He had accomplished what no other human being had ever done before. Yuri Gagarin's successful flight into space paved the way for all future space exploration.
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Apr 11, 2011 · The daughter of Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin says her father was unhappy he was not allowed to fly again after becoming the first man in space.
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Gagarina is the daughter of the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin. She grew up in Zvyozdny gorodok, the space training facility known as Star City. [6]
