Yuri Gagarin
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to fly into outer space, achieving a major milestone in the Space Race; his capsule Vostok 1 reached one orbit of Earth on January 11, 1961.
Gagarin earned multiple awards and accolades, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his country's highest award, after he became a celebrity. In his youth, Gagarin was a foundryman at a steel plant in Lyubertsy and was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (a town later renamed after him).
He joined the Soviet Air Forces as a pilot and was stationed at the Luostari Air Base near the Norwegian border before being chosen for the Soviet space program with five other cosmonauts.
Gagarin became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre, which was later named after him following his spaceflight.
He was also elected as a deputy of the Soviet Union in 1962 and later to the Soviet of Nationalities, respectively the lower and upper chambers of the Supreme Soviet. Vostok 1 was Gagarin's first spaceflight, but he was also the backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission, which resulted in a fatal crash, killing his colleague and fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, killing his colleague and fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov.
Fearing for his life, Soviet officials permanently barred Gagarin from further spaceflights, but he did intend to fly a regular aircraft, which he was allowed to do after finishing his education at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy on February 17, 1968.
Gagarin died five weeks later when his MiG-15 training jet he was piloting with his flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin crashed near the town of Kirzhachachach.
Early life
Gagarin was born 9 March 1934 in the village of Klushino in the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic's Smolensk Oblast near Gzhatsk (renamed Gagarin in 1966 after his death). His parents worked on a collective farm, Aleksey Ivanovich Gagarin as a carpenter, and Anna Timofeyevna Gagarina as a dairy farmer. Yuri was the third of four children in the series. Valentin was his older brother who was born in 1924, and by the time Yuri was born, he was already helping with the livestock on the farm. Zoya, a young boy born in 1927, helped care for "Yura" and their youngest brother Boris, who was born in 1936.
Gagarin's hometown was located along the route of several Russian invasions, and the site of many wars and conquests from foreign nations. His family was among millions of Soviet Union civilians surviving during World War II's Nazi war. The collective farm's livestock were confiscated by retrenching Red Army troops as they advanced on Moscow. On October 18, 1941, the Nazis captured Klushino. They burned down the school on their first day in the village, putting an end to Yuri's first year of education. In addition, the Nazis burned down 27 houses in the village, causing the locals, including the Gagarins, to work the farms to feed the hungry prisoners. Many who refused were beaten or sent to the concentration camp in Gzhatsk were arrested.
The Gagarin residence was rented by a German officer. The family was allowed to build a mud hut measuring approximately 3 by 3 meters (10 by ten ft), where they stayed on the property for 21 months before the family was evicted. Yuri became a saboteur during this period, particularly after one of the German soldiers, "the Devil," attempted to hang his younger brother Boris on an apple tree with the boy's scarf. In revenge, Yuri sabotaged the soldier's livelihood; he poured soil into the tank batteries; and randomly mixed the various chemical supplies that were intended for the job. His two older siblings were arrested by the Germans in early 1943 to Poland for slave labour. They escaped and were discovered by Soviet soldiers who had conscripted them into service with the war effort. In 1945, they did not return home until after the war.
The two older children were believed to have died, and Yuri became sick with "grief and hunger"; he was also killed for refusing to serve for the German forces and spent the remainder of the war as a patient and later as an orderly. After a German soldier gashed her leg with a scythe, his mother was hospitalized during the same period. Yuri assisted the Red Army in finding mines that had been buried in the road by the fleeing German army when the Germans were routed out of Klushino on March 9, 1944.
Personal life
Gagarin, a cadet at flight school, met Valentina Goryacheva at the May Day celebrations in Moscow. She was a medical technician who had graduated from Orenburg Medical School. They were married on November 7th of the same year, the day Gagarin graduated from his flight school, and they had two children. Yelena Yurievna Gagarina, a 1959 art historian who has served as the Moscow Kremlin Museums' director general, and Galina Yurievna Gagarina, born 1961, is a professor of economics and department chair at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics in Moscow. Following his ascension to fame in September 1961, he was reportedly captured by his wife during a friendship with a nurse who had aided him after a boating incident. He attempted to open a window and jumped from a second-story balcony. The resultant injury left a permanent scar over his left eyebrow.
Gagarin was a keen sportsman and played ice hockey as a goalkeeper in his youth. As well as being a referee, he was both a basketball fan and coached the Saratov Industrial Technical School team.
According to some reports, Gagarin said during his space flight, "I don't see any God up here," although no such words appear in the verbatim record of his conversations with Earth stations during the space flight. Gagarin never said these words and that the quote came from Khrushchev's address at the Central Committee of the CPSU about the state's anti-religion movement, but didn't see any god there," Gagarin's colleague Colonel Valentin Petrov said in a 2006 interview. "Gagarin baptized his elder daughter Yelena shortly before his space flight," Petrov said, and his family continued to celebrate Christmas and Easter with flags in the house.
Education and early career
The family lived in Gzhatsk, where Gagarin continued his education in 1946. Yuri and Boris were enrolled in a common school operated by a young woman who volunteered to be the teacher. They learned to read using a discarded Russian military manual. After a former Russian airman returned to the academy to teach math and science, one of Yuri's favorite subjects. Yuri was also part of a group of children who built model airplanes. He was fascinated with flying crafts from a young age and his interest in airplanes was revived after a Yakovlev fighter plane crash landed in Klushino during the war.
Gagarin, a 16-year-old boy from Lyubertsy, near Moscow, began an apprenticeship as a discoverryman at a steel plant in Lyubertsy, near Moscow, and was enrolled in a local "newbie" kindergarten class for seventh-grade evening classes in 1950. He was chosen for further study at the Industrial Technical School in Saratov, where he concentrated on tractors after graduating in 1951 from both the seventh grade and the vocational school with distinctions in moldmaking and foundry work. Gagarin worked at a local flying club for weekend training as a Soviet air cadet, where he learned to fly a biplane and later a Yakovlev Yak-18. On the Volga River, he earned more money as a part-time dock labourer.
