First human in space. Yura Gagarin

Before the first flight into space, pilots from the cosmonaut squadron voted to choose the most worthy candidate. The winner was Yuri Gagarin.

The first cosmonaut was of peasant origin: his father, Alexey Ivanovich Gagarin, worked as a carpenter, and his mother, Anna Timofeevna Matveeva, worked on a dairy farm.

Yuri's favorite movies were those in which the characters showed heroism, and his favorite word, most often used by him, was: "work»