Around the USSR №216-1986 From the first start (1986)

Cobblestones of Red Square in Moscow.

Red Square in the morning.

Spasskaya Tower, chimes.

Newsreel from 1961: Rocket takeoff.

General Designer S.P. Korolev speaks into a microphone.

Yuri Gagarin in the cabin of the spacecraft (from the TV screen).

Photo of Yu.

Gagarin.

Cobblestones of Red Square – general, panorama.

Meeting of cosmonauts from different countries in the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions (in honor of the 25th anniversary of Yu.

Gagarin's flight); among the cosmonauts - G.T. Beregovoy – medium, small.

Correspondents filming – medium, panorama.

Hungarian cosmonaut Bertalan Farkas speaks about Yu.

Gagarin (synchronously in Russian) – medium, small.

Photo by B. Farkas, A. Leonov.

Press center – various.

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov speaks (synchronously) – small.

A meeting dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the space era, with cosmonaut G.S. Titov in the presidium – kr.

Speakers.

Photos of cosmonauts A. Eliseev, B. Volynov – kr.

Cosmonauts Alexei Eliseev and Boris Volynov speak about Gagarin’s flight (synchronously) – kr.

Newsreel from 1961: Public celebration in Moscow and other places: people with posters, waving.

Yury Gagarin passes by after the flight.

People greet Gagarin; Yury Gagarin on the Mausoleum tribune.

Photo: Gagarin and Korolev; K.E. Tsiolkovsky – kr, zoom out.

Monument to K.E. Tsiolkovsky in Moscow near the obelisk to the conquerors of space – kr, zoom out.

House-museum of K.E. Tsiolkovsky in Kaluga (outside) – medium, zoom in.

A table and a lamp in the office – kr, Poland.

Cosmonauts in the house-museum – kr, Poland.

Executive Director of the U.S. Institute of Aeronautics John Harford speaking (simultaneously in English).

A rocket and the building of the Kaluga Museum of the History of Cosmonautics – kr, Poland.

The halls of the museum, cosmonauts and correspondents in the hall – kr, Poland.

The diary kept by Yuri Gagarin during his first flight – kr.

A model of a spacecraft – kr, Poland.

Journalists in the press center – various.

The House of the Unions: on the sidelines of the cosmonauts’ meeting, Yuri Gagarin’s wife Valentina Gagarina gives autographs – kr.

Cuban cosmonaut Tamayo Mendez and Polish cosmonaut Miroslav Hermaszewski speak about Yuri Gagarin (simultaneously in Russian) – kr, Wed.

Photos by T. Mendez, M. Hermaszewski – kr.

Newsreel from 1961: Meetings of Yuri Gagarin in different countries: driving by in a car, talking to people.

Meeting of Yuri Gagarin with F. Castro.

Building of the House of Friendship in Moscow – Wed, Poland.

Reception of cosmonauts in the House of Friendship, those present applaud.

Chairperson of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Z.M. Kruglova speaks.

Monument to Yuri Gagarin (bust on the side of the obelisk) – Wed, zoom in.

Celebration of the 25th anniversary of the first manned space flight at VDNKh: cosmonauts pass by; public festivities – Wed.

Cosmonauts plant a tree – Wed.

Obelisk to the conquerors of space – Wed.