April 12 - Day of Soviet Cosmonautics

FIRST COSMONAUT PLANET EARTH

He is a citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics communist Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin.

The USSR space program began in 1921 with the founding of the Gas Dynamics Laboratory at the Red Army, which in 1933 became part of the Reactive Institute at the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry of the USSR. In 1933, the first Soviet missile was tested.

In 1946, the Council of Ministers of the USSR under the leadership of the Generalissimo of the USSR I.V. Stalin adopted a plan to create rocket science. Marshal of the USSR Beria Lavrenty Pavlovich oversaw this grandiose project.

The project was supervised by a USSR academician, Soviet scientist, space systems designer Korolev Sergey Pavlovich, who, as a fifth-year student at MVTU, led the design team at the aircraft factory. In 1940, Korolev S.P. worked in a special technical bureau under the NKVD of the USSR. In 1945, S.P. The Queen is appointed head of the Soviet-German Institute for the Study of Military Equipment of the Former Fascist Reich.

On March 7, 1960, the first cosmonaut detachment began to be recruited in the USSR, into which 12 people were enrolled. Among them was Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, who on April 12, 1961, flew into space for the first time in the world.

Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in the village of Klushino in the western region of the RSFSR in the family of a simple carpenter and peasant woman.

In 1941, Yura Gagarin went to school, but his studies were interrupted by the Great Patriotic War. He could resume his studies because of the German occupation only in 1943.

After leaving school, Yuri Gagarin enters a vocational school, and then to an industrial college, where he has been studying at the Saratov flying club since 1954 and, thanks to his perseverance and passion for aviation sciences, Yuri, in 1955, was drafted into the army and sent to the Orenburg military aviation College, which graduates in 1957 with honors. In 1960, Gagarin was convinced to join the Communist Party. The favorite word of Yuri Gagarin already in those youthful years was the word “work”. He was confident in his abilities, was not afraid to defend his point of view.

At the time of the selection from among the pilots from the first cosmonaut squad who will fly into space, Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin was the most prepared of all applicants for space flight. He was competent, single-minded, not sparing himself in the work to achieve the goal, and with excellent physical fitness.

Those 108 minutes on April 12, 1961, which the first cosmonaut of planet Earth communist, the Soviet citizen Yuri Gagarin spent in space, became an example of the skill and heroism of citizens of the socialist system, Soviet science and school. After all, it was not for nothing that American President John F. Kennedy declared that "we lost space to the Russians from the school bench."

Yuri Gagarin was a patriot of his socialist homeland. After his first flight into space, he was repeatedly invited as an honored guest to foreign countries (he was invited by Queen Elizabeth of England), but he always returned to the USSR for further service to his country, rejecting any attempts to seduce his life abroad for the proposed very high fees .

Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin - a pilot-cosmonaut, the first cosmonaut of the planet Earth, a hero of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a gentleman of the highest insignia of a number of foreign states. Gagarin had the military rank of Colonel of the USSR Air Force, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. He was a member of the Komsomol Central Committee, a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the seventh and eighth convocations.

He died in a plane crash in the line of duty on March 27, 1968, during a training flight as a test pilot engineer on the MIG-15 UTI fighter in the Vladimir Region.

Yuri Gagarin - The legend man until the end of his days served his homeland - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a real communist, Soviet citizen, devoted to the ideals of communism.

                                                                                    Comrade william