The funeral of Yuri Gagarin and VS Seregina (1968)

Footage №17376, 4 parts, black-white
Production: CSDF (RCSDF)
Availability:Film hasn't been digitized
Camera operators:Makaseev B., Sher B., Mukhin E., Fedyaev E., Krylov A.

Temporary description:

Muscovites say goodbye to the Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin of the USSR and Hero of the Soviet Union of the commander of the aviation parts VS Seregin, killed in a training flight on a plane: in the honor guard at the urns with ashes of Gagarin and Seregin stand Party leaders and the Soviet government. Among them, Leonid Brezhnev, NV Podgorny, Kosygin, DS Polyansky, and AP Kirilenko, GI Voronov, AN Shelepin, the astronauts - Nikolaev -- Tereshkova, A. Leonov, VP Belyaev, Popovich, Titov, and others. Funeral procession moves to Red Square. Memorial service. Among the speakers at the rally: AP Kirilenko, MV Keldysh, SA Antonov, VV Grishin, AG Nikolaev and others. Urns with ashes of Yuri Gagarin and VS Seregina set in recesses of the Kremlin wall.

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