Women's stories 12.04.1999 (1999)

The program is dedicated to Gagarina Elena Yurievna.

Daughter of the first cosmonaut of the Earth Yuri Gagarin.

Gagarina Elena was born on April 17, 1959 in the city of Zapolyarny, Murmansk region.

Father - Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin - Soviet pilot-cosmonaut, on April 12, 1961 he became the first person in world history to fly into outer space.

Mother - Valentina Ivanovna Gagarina (née Goryacheva), graduated from the Orenburg Medical School, worked in the laboratory of the Medical Department of the Mission Control Center.

Elena spent her childhood in Star City.

She went in for sports, was fond of figure skating, swimming, rhythmic gymnastics, and skiing.

She studied at a music school, piano class.

From an early age she was interested in art.

She graduated from high school with a gold medal.

In 1981 she graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University, Department of History and Theory of Art, specializing in the history of art.

Qualification: art critic.

Since September 1981 - research associate at the A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.

She worked as a keeper of English graphics, was deputy head of the graphics department for storage.

She worked at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts for 20 years.

In 1989, she defended her dissertation for the academic degree of candidate of art history on the topic "English book illustration of the mid-18th century" at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Gagarina Elena talks about her mother and father.

Family photos of Gagarin Yuri.

Video: The host, Gagarina Elena with her daughter Elena and granddaughter Katya walk through the park.

Katya, the granddaughter of Gagarin Yuri, talks about her grandmother and grandfather.

Family photos of Gagarin Yuri with his daughters.

Chronicle: The launch vehicle on the launch pad, Yuri Gagarin gives a speech before the flight into space, cosmonaut training, installing the rocket on the launch pad, Yuri Gagarin in a spacesuit, a bus takes the cosmonaut to the launch pad, Gagarin and officers before the launch, the elevator lifts the cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin in the spacecraft cabin, flames from the rocket engines, the spacecraft takes off.

Gagarina Elena talks about her mother and April 12, 1962. Chronicle: The descent module lies on the ground, Yuri Gagarin after landing, happy people on the street, Gagarin walks along the airfield, Gagarin reports to Khrushchev about the flight into space, Yuri Gagarin and Nikita Khrushchev at the mausoleum, Gagarin on a bicycle, Gagarin with his daughters.

Gagarina Elena talks about her studies and her father.

Family photos of Yuri Gagarin.

Gagarina Elena talks about family relationships.

People meet and greet the motorcade with Gagarin Yuri.

Gagarin Yuri at a press conference.

Flip calendar.

Overcoat and cap of Gagarin Yuri.

Portrait of Gagarin Yuri.

Video: Host, Gagarina Elena with her daughter Elena and granddaughter Katya in the Cosmonautics Museum, model of the descent module, falling MIG 15 aircraft.

Gagarina Elena talks about the death of her father.

Chronicle: Funeral of Gagarin Yuri, mourners at the coffin, portraits of Gagarin Yuri and instructor Seregin V.S. on the grave near the Kremlin wall.

Gagarina Elena and Katya, granddaughter of Gagarin Yuri, talk about Valentina Ivanovna Gagarina.

Family photos of Gagarin Yuri.