Exploring space

The universe is infinite…

The Soviet people were the first to fly into outer space

October 4, 1957
SPUTNIK

April 12, 1961
VOSTOK

Yuri
GAGARIN

Making space stations

Yuri Gagarin’s parents
Anna Timofeevna
Alexei Ivanovich

He took his school studies very seriously

Konstantin Eduardovich TSIOLKOVSKY

At the age of 23 Yuri became a pilot

Orbiting the Earth Satellites

The first group of Soviet cosmonauts

April 12, 1961
VOSTOK

Before the flight

Yuri Gagarin was awarded the Gold Star of Hero

Yuri GAGARIN visited nearly every country

Among the children

“Flying round the Earth
in a spaceship,
I saw how wonderful our planet was.
People, let us preserve this beauty and not destroy it.”
Yuri Gagarin